Lena Pratt Sanders, the Marion Circuit Court magistrate judge, has continued her family’s legal legacy of three generations of Black attorneys in Indianapolis — and has now started the family’s second generation of judges.
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With nothing but the clothes on his back and his cellphone, Ali Noori, his wife and 2-year-old daughter went to the airport in hopes of safely fleeing their country: Afghanistan.
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Born and raised in Wabash with a lawyer for a dad, it was certainly natural for Emily Guenin-Hodson to return to her hometown after law school and join her father in the family practice.
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As larger firms tout heftier pay packages and perks partly designed to get attorneys excited to come back to an office post-pandemic, those who run and work at smaller firms are trying to show that they have their own advantages, too.
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A pair of Indianapolis attorneys were recognized with two of the Indiana Trial Lawyers Association’s highest honors at the association’s annual meeting and awards ceremony in May.
Two recent law firm expansions have connected the legal community in Indiana to national and international markets, including India.
Elizabeth Baumhart has been a practicing trademark attorney for about five years now. In that time, she’s learned to put a bold, underlined warning on every file notification email she sends to clients. The warning: Be on the lookout for scams.
The Indiana Supreme Court has suspended 231 lawyers for not complying with Admission and Discipline Rules, including not paying the annual registration fee and not meeting the continuing legal education requirement.
Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita has retained well-known conservative attorney Jim Bopp under a $250,000 contract to aid with various legal matters.
The Egyptian god Bes is short and squat in many depictions, with bowlegs, a feathered headdress and a protruding tongue designed to ward off misfortune. That’s what drew Shelli Wright Johnson to the diminutive dwarf god.
A Fort Wayne police officer whose vehicle fatally injured a pedestrian in a crosswalk was disciplined for four previous crashes while on duty, the department said Monday.
The team at McCarter & English LLP now has a permanent office within the city of Carmel’s coveted 1st on Main project.
An Indianapolis attorney has been convicted of two federal misdemeanors in connection with the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol.
Women have been breaking the metaphorical glass ceiling for centuries.
That includes Indiana women in law, who since the nineteenth century have been paving the way for those who’ve come after them.
At a law firm, a wrong click on a suspicious email link could result in a cybersecurity breach that exposes a client’s intellectual property or privileged attorney-
client information.
Bob Hammerle and his son Chris used to go into the Marion County Prosecutor’s Office on Saturday mornings with a sack of doughnuts and a chunky TV. Bob, then a brand-new lawyer, worked on files while Chris watched cartoons.
Lawyers expect jury selection to last several days before testimony begins in the trial of disgraced South Carolina lawyer Alex Murdaugh.
The Indiana Supreme Court’s Disciplinary Commission on Friday published a nonbinding advisory opinion focused on Rules of Professional Conduct Rule 1.10, which outlines when a law firm is prohibited from representing a client based on imputed conflicts of interest.
The Lawyers Basketball League is inviting partners, associates, law clerks and their staff to form teams and play a little amateur hoops during the 2022-23 hardcourt season.
Attorney Kevin Betz, co-founder of Betz + Blevins, has stepped away from his full-time work because of his ongoing battle with Parkinson’s disease. With medication and exercise, Betz has maintained his mobility but has struggled with fatigue.
In the still morning hours before darkness lifted, 85-year-old Indianapolis attorney Dan Byron was boarding a bus headed for the airport. The Dentons Bingham Greenbaum partner was shuttled along with 86 other veterans to the Indianapolis International Airport at 4 a.m., where they settled onto an American Airlines flight dedicated solely to them. On Sept. […]
After paring down in-person events in 2020 and easing back into them in 2021, the IndyBar Foundation (IBF) has been very active in 2022.
Interested in participating in leadership as a member of the fundraising-focused 2023 IndyBar Foundation Board of Directors? The following vacancies exist and must be filled by an attorney member: vice president, secretary, treasurer, diversity, equity, and inclusion accountability director and several director positions.
Indiana Chief Justice Loretta Rush signed an order Sept. 2 appointing 41 members of the Indiana Bar to the character and fitness committee. Members will serve until successors are appointed, pursuant to Indiana Admission and Discipline Rule 12(4).