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Law firms, ISBA find different ways to use new office spaces: Efficiency, culture at heart of new offices, even with less square footage
In its Top 2023 Legal Trends Report, the website Legal Recruiter Directory noted an increased focus on collaboration within legal practices and the utilization of much smaller offices on average than previously.
IndyBar: Cultural Competence: The Challenges and Opportunities of Serving English as Second Language Clients
When your clients are of diverse backgrounds, are nonnative English speakers and are often immigrants, how do you best serve their needs?
DTCI: Working with a professional coach has big career benefits
Working with a coach is an investment in your career. It is not cheap, and it can make you ask difficult questions about yourself. But it can also help you determine what you want out of your career and the steps you can take to get there.
IndyBar: On Demand with IndyBar Celebrating 10 Years of Service
IndyBar’s On-Demand CLE service is celebrating its 10th anniversary providing hundreds of online options for free or at a nominal cost.
‘They’re helping out’: Prosecutors’ offices hosting clinics for expungements, license suspensions
A line of people formed at Lucas Oil Stadium on a recent Tuesday morning, well before the doors to the stadium opened for the Marion County Prosecutor’s Office’s Second Chance Workshop. Other prosecutor’s offices are doing similar work.
IndyBar: Play a Part in Welcoming New Americans
About every six weeks, IndyBar is fortunate to provide a representative of the legal community to participate in a Naturalization Ceremony at the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana to welcome newly naturalized American citizens.
Fishers attorney gets probation from IN Supreme Court following 7th Circuit suspension
A Fishers attorney suspended from practicing law in the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals for one year has been placed on probation by the Indiana Supreme Court.
‘Genuinely moving’: Retired Chief Justice Shepard honored by bar foundation, Indiana Landmarks
Former Indiana Chief Justice Randall Shepard has found himself walking up to more stages recently, posing briefly for a photo with his most recent award before stepping to a microphone, pulling notes from his pocket and starting in on a speech.
‘Welcome home’: Naturalization ceremony filled with celebration, honor ahead of 4th of July
The sun was shining upon the Benjamin Harrison Presidential Site on June 30 as hundreds of people gathered to watch their loved ones officially become United States citizens.
Portage Manor residents file federal lawsuit to prevent closure of South Bend assisted living facility
A group of residents at a South Bend assisted living facility have filed a class-action lawsuit to keep the 116-year-old site open.
1 week left to submit Diversity in Law nominations
Just one week remains to submit your nominations for Indiana Lawyer’s inaugural Diversity in Law awards program.
Fort Wayne man agrees to plead guilty to killing 2 men, wounding 3rd
A Fort Wayne man accused of fatally shooting two young men and wounding a third at a gas station in 2021 has agreed to plead guilty to two counts of murder and one count of attempted murder.
Hancock Co. judge admonished for ‘injudicious’ comments made while on legal prescription drugs that ‘affected judgment’
Hancock Superior Judge Donald Jack “D.J.” Davis has been admonished for “injudicious” comments made during an incident at his son’s home in June 2022, when he said his use of legally prescribed narcotics “affected (his) judgment.”
Law firm to reimburse for not drinking and driving on July 4th holiday
Indianapolis law firm Eskew Law’s Sober Rides safety campaign will be running on Independence Day to keep local residents from driving after they’ve been drinking.
Deep sea mining permits may be coming soon. What are they and what might happen?
The International Seabed Authority — the United Nations body that regulates the world’s ocean floor — is preparing to resume negotiations that could open the international seabed for mining, including for materials critical for the green energy transition.
Activists spurred by affirmative action ruling sue Harvard over legacy admissions
A civil rights group is challenging legacy admissions at Harvard University, saying the practice discriminates against students of color by giving an unfair boost to the mostly white children of alumni.
In 370 days, Supreme Court conservatives dash decades of abortion and affirmative action precedents
Overturning Roe v. Wade and eliminating affirmative action in higher education had been leading goals of the conservative legal movement. In a span of 370 days, a Supreme Court reshaped by three justices nominated by President Donald Trump made both a reality.
Police officer and man are killed as Indiana hospital confrontation leads to gunfire
A man suspected of domestic violence fatally shot a police officer at a southern Indiana hospital early Monday before he was killed by other officers, authorities said.
IN Supreme Court split in excluding unrelated felony testimony at habitual offender trial
A defendant’s testimony about a prior unrelated felony was irrelevant to his habitual offender trial, a sharply divided Indiana Supreme Court has ruled, upholding the exclusion of that testimony.