The Indiana Lawyer wrote a feature story in 1994 with the headline “Roger Coffin: lawyer by day, blues band leader by night.” Thirty-one years later, that headline remains more or less accurate.
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Law wasn’t his first career. Initially, Hugh Hunt, now the judge of the Sullivan Superior Court, worked as a funeral director.
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Growing up in a house with an attorney for a dad, Jennings Circuit Judge Murielle Bright knew she wanted to study law.
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Going to law school was initially going to be a stepping stone to what Knox Circuit Judge Monica Gilmore had planned to do: join the FBI.
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The road to getting an adoption petition granted is a lengthy one, and often, the final step in court can be an intimidating one for kids. That’s why Morgan Superior Judge Dakota VanLeeuwen wanted to find a way to make children feel more comfortable.
Growing up a block away from the Spencer County Courthouse, now-Judge Jon Dartt used to mow grass for some of the local lawyer families.
When reflecting on why he wanted to go to law school, Parke Circuit Judge Sam Swaim said he was initially interested in joining the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
The path to judgeship wasn’t a straight shot for Chief Environmental Law Judge Mary Davidsen, but she let her curiosity lead her along the way.
Being a first and an only is something Barnes & Thornburg LLP partner Alan Mills has worked to prevent from happening ever again.
Daviess Circuit Judge Gregory Smith was on a completely different career path when his law school acceptance letter arrived.
Publishing a book is a feat of its own, but for University of Notre Dame Law School Professor Christian Burset, that feat was more than a decade in the making.
While Carroll Superior Judge Troy Hawkins said never imagined he would be a judge, he’s glad to have ended up there.
There’s a pumpkin patch, corn maze, apple cider slushies and more waiting for visitors who make the trip this fall to Lark Ranch. For attorney and owner Matt Lark, the plan was to stop running the farm once his kids were grown. But they had other plans.
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.
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.
When Bill Welch first started practicing law, he had no intention of becoming a prosecutor — let alone an attorney working in the child support space.
Meet Christopher Lee, a partner at Dinsmore & Shohl LLP who will soon lead the Defense Trial Counsel of Indiana as its 2023 president.
As summer prepared to fade into fall, the teams in the Indianapolis lawyers’ softball league spread across the diamond one last time Thursday evening to play for the championship trophy.
Light filtered gently through murky multicolored glass on a weekday afternoon at the Christ Church Cathedral on Monument Circle as law librarian Lee Little expertly described the intricacies of the historic structure. Enthralled by the rich, complex and at times painful pasts of churches in the Indianapolis area, Little — a research and instruction librarian and adjunct lecturer in law at the Ruth Lilly Law Library at Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law — decided to put pen to paper and document the city’s churches and congregations.
Tim Shelly, a partner at Warrick & Boyn LLP, has been characterized as a leader in Indiana historic preservation circles for years due to his devotion to revitalizing his local and state communities.
Many things have happened to seafaring attorneys Ann Marie Waldron and Mike Simmons since they first set sail on their yearslong tour of the American waterways.
The COVID-19 pandemic killed millions worldwide and uprooted livelihoods and industries in the past year. But at least one industry has emerged relatively unscathed, if not stronger. Some Indiana intellectual property attorneys have seen an increase in patent requests and inventions during the pandemic as individuals utilized their creative skills while quarantining.
Indiana Capitol Police say they feel a special sense of pride and honor carrying out their duties of safeguarding the Indiana Statehouse and many other Circle City landmarks. They feel they are doing something especially important for fellow Hoosiers.
Shared experiences bring people together. That’s particularly true of the members of the Rudy Lozano Bar Association, a northwest Indiana group dedicated to serving Latino legal professionals. Formerly known as the Northwest Indiana Hispanic Bar Association, the group filed articles of incorporation under its new name in February 2020. Its namesake is the late federal Judge Rodolfo “Rudy” Lozano, who died in July 2018.