IndyBar: Indianapolis Bar Foundation Recognizes 2022 Fellows
The IndyBar Foundation expresses sincere gratitude to the 2022 Distinguished Fellows and Distinguished Life Fellows for their long and continuing support of our profession and community.
The IndyBar Foundation expresses sincere gratitude to the 2022 Distinguished Fellows and Distinguished Life Fellows for their long and continuing support of our profession and community.
The mission of Indy Legal Alliance is to promote and support a thriving, diverse, equitable and inclusive Indianapolis legal community that works together to support law students and lawyers and advance justice in the broader community.
On Wednesday, April 20, the IndyBar Foundation hosted its first spring trivia event since 2019.
Advanced directives are essential tools for ensuring one’s wishes for medical and end-of-life treatment are known. Unfortunately, people with intellectual or developmental disabilities are often overlooked in discussions surrounding advanced directives. Thanks to a $35,000 grant from the Indianapolis Bar Foundation, a new program from Indiana Disability Rights will empower these individuals to make their important end-of-life choices known.
On Feb. 17, 2022, a historic networking event occurred among the Marion County Bar Association (MCBA), the Asian Pacific American Bar Association of Indiana (APABA), Indianapolis Bar Association (IndyBar) and Indianapolis Bar Foundation (IndyBar Foundation).
See photos from the IndyBar Association and Foundation Leadership Celebration and Installation Breakfast, held March 3.
Two upcoming IndyBar Foundation events are certain to keep you feeling young and socially connected.
I am proud to serve as president of the Indianapolis Bar Foundation, and I cannot wait to share what we have in store in 2022.
We’re introducing you to some of the IndyBar Foundation’s 2022 leaders.
For more than 50 years, the Indianapolis Bar Foundation has worked to ensure equal access to justice for all Indianapolis-area residents. In an effort to expand this impact on the greater Indianapolis community, applications from local organizations are now being accepted through Feb. 15, 2022 for the foundation’s annual Community Empowerment Grant. The grant will be awarded in April 2022.
The Internal Revenue Service is highlighting a special tax provision that allows more people to deduct donations to qualifying charities on their 2021 federal income tax return. Make an impact on our community and profession now with your donation to the Indianapolis Bar Foundation.
The Indianapolis legal community thrives because of the dedication of many esteemed individuals who, using their unique talents, work together to advance justice and lead positive change. Each year the Indianapolis Bar Foundation honors such lawyers for their dedication to the law by bestowing on them the designation of Distinguished Fellow and Distinguished Life Fellow.
Not that I’ve had much time for tooling around these days, but I have managed to watch a bit of the Peter Jackson cut of “The Beatles: Get Back” sessions. As you know, dear IndyBar Foundation, The Beatles are without equal for me. I’ve tried to explain the nearly impossible “amaze-balls-ness” of The Beatles to the skeptics/haters/uninitiated (or as much as a Midwestern kid born in 1981 can divine about the real Beatles experience), and this is the best I’ve come up with.
It’s the season of giving and even during the hardships of 2021, generous bidders and donors helped the Indianapolis Bar Foundation raise more than $15,000 during IndyBar’s Giving, this year’s online silent auction to benefit the programs and initiatives of the IndyBar Foundation.
Service with the IndyBar Foundation is a fun, meaningful experience that connects you to your colleagues and your community. Applications are now being accepted for positions on the board of directors.
This week’s column is dedicated to the two paralegals who have forever shaped IndyBar Foundation President Adam Christensen’s personal life and his professional abilities: Elisa F. and Holley S.
The Indianapolis Bar Foundation is hosting its annual Day of Giving on Oct. 27. Through this online fundraiser, with one donation big or small, you have the opportunity to touch thousands of people — your fellow lawyers, law students, and people in need in and around Indianapolis.
As we approach the Indianapolis Bar Foundation Day of Giving this year, we can draw inspiration from Nelson Mandela and have absolute certainty that our gifts, entrusted to the IndyBar Foundation, will continue to hit the mark during these particularly volatile times.
Reach for Youth Inc. has been named the 2021 recipient of the Indianapolis Bar Foundation’s Community Empowerment Fund grant of $35,000. Reach for Youth will use the funds to pilot a Restorative Justice Circles model, which diverts young people from suspension, expulsion and the justice system by helping them understand the negative consequences of their actions, how they impact others and how to restore and repair relationships.
Could I reflect on the intersection between the lyrics of “Jagged Little Pill,” a two-plus-decade-old feminist empowerment anthem, and the practice of law and do any justice to either? Let’s find out.