There’s a reason why soccer moms have a certain cliché attached to them: They’re always willing to step up. That’s the kind of energy Anna Mallon, the incoming president of the Defense Trial Counsel of Indiana, is looking to bring to the organization.
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Meet Christopher Lee, a partner at Dinsmore & Shohl LLP who will soon lead the Defense Trial Counsel of Indiana as its 2023 president.
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Meet the Defense Trial Counsel of Indiana’s new president, Elliott Pinkie.
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Kori Chambers begins her year as president of the Defense Trial Counsel of Indiana seeking a smooth transition during a challenging era. She plans to continue the proposition championed by outgoing DTCI President Donald Smith that defense lawyers get a good bargain through their affiliation with the organization.
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A member of Defense Trial Counsel of Indiana since the late 1990s, Norris Cunningham said he knows firsthand how crucial a conglomerate of encouraging peers is to the success of an attorney.
Trimble died in July at the age of 69. The award honors an attorney who has made outstanding contributions during their career to representing clients in the defense of litigation matters.
In the fast-paced and often high-pressure environments of professional and personal life, we should remember to offer grace.
Those early days in the hospital after our daughter’s birth were filled with all the usual first-time parenting adjustments—sleep deprivation, paperwork, bottles, random visitors, uncertainty—and layered on top of it was the constant hum of work.
The most successful and sustainable legal careers are not built solely on workload, but on a lawyer’s commitment to continual growth.
Here’s a look at the different approaches used in state and federal civil jury trials.
Refreshing myself on the foundations of the term really helped to re-energize my thoughts on the rule of law, and its importance to a functioning society.
Less than two percent of cases go to trial, so trial experiences are hard to come by.
The real legacy is in how we deal with the messy, the imperfections and the unexpected.
Officers Scott B. Cockrum, the 2025 president, is a partner in the Northwest Indiana and Indianapolis offices of Lewis Brisbois. He has extensive experience handling professional liability claims in state and federal courts in Indiana, including ones involving the defense of architects, engineers, lawyers, accountants, surveyors, property managers, and realtors. He also frequently represents physicians […]
Attorneys who defend clients against civil litigation will gather in South Bend November 20-22 for the 31st annual Defense Trial Counsel of Indiana conference, held at the Morris Inn on the campus of the University of Notre Dame.
Ahead of annual conference this week for the Defense Trial Counsel of Indiana, incoming president Scott Cockrum sat down with the Indiana Lawyer to discuss his plans for the next year.
Please join me at the Defense Research Institute’s annual meeting, taking place Oct. 16-18 in Seattle. DRI’s annual meeting offers civil defense lawyers the opportunity to network with peers from around the country, attend top educational programming, and hear from leading national speakers.
A closer look at as Indiana Supreme Court decision that held that neither the trial courts nor the chairpersons of the medical review panel have the authority to exclude certain material.
Our profession, with its adversarial nature and its focus on productivity and the billable hour, lends itself to an increased risk of mental health and substance use issues
My neighbor is a lawyer, which I learned about quite accidentally.
At 3:06 p.m. on April 8, the city of Indianapolis will experience its first total solar eclipse in 819 years. As an attorney who advises employers, the impact of this rare celestial event on Indiana’s employers has been on my mind.
Unless you have been living under a rock, everyone has heard about “Traylor,” “Tayvis” or “Swelce” — the nicknames given to the Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce relationship.
Please join us in honoring the DTCI 2023 award recipients!