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Hammerle on … ’42’
Before reviewing the movie “42,” Bob Hammerle pays tribute to the recent passing of Roger Ebert, Jonathan Winters and Annette Funicello.
Lucas: 2013 Leadership in Law Award winners revealed
Through the profiles in the Leadership in Law award supplement, it is our goal to introduce IL readers to the men and women behind the public and professional personas.
Disciplinary Actions -4/24/13
Read who’s been suspended and who’s been publicly reprimanded by the Indiana Supreme Court.
Humvee maker wins $277M
A defense subcontractor marked up kits, resulting in millions of dollars in armor overcharges.
Law school applications drop over last 2 years
Applications to three of the four Indiana law schools are in free fall as prospective students think twice about taking on mountains of debt at a time when job prospects are dim.
Big tech tips for small firms
When advising small firm and solo lawyers recently at the American Bar Association Tech Show in Chicago, Indianapolis attorney Marc Matheny said he ran out of time before he ran out of tips.
Follow-up support needed for mediation success
The Neighborhood Christian Legal Clinic launches new three-phase program that also incorporates education.
Mediation space key to resolution, even if it’s a getaway divorce
Just because a dispute might be ugly, it doesn’t mean the surroundings have to be.
Law students provide vital help to immigrants
Law professors involved with immigration clinics agree that a change in the national immigration law could create more work for the clinics, especially if undocumented workers currently in the country had a path to citizenship.
Aid rises for those wrongly convicted
Prosecutors and police helped clear more than half of those exonerated in 2012, according to a report by the National Registry of Exonerations.
Longest-practicing female attorney in Indiana has no plans to retire
Reflecting on her legal career, Poff said she probably would not have been successful working at a big law firm. Yet she has done well as a solo practitioner in Auburn, not only building and sustaining a law office but also being a quiet influence on the other attorneys in DeKalb County.
SCOTUS declines review of injunction against Medicaid cap on dental work
The Supreme Court of the United States will leave undisturbed a ruling that blocked state efforts to cap dental work for Medicaid recipients at $1,000 per year.
Indiana Supreme Court adds 2 cases, denies 22
The Indiana Supreme Court will review the case of a man whose attempted child exploitation convictions for secretly photographing minor girls in their underwear were overturned by a divided panel of the Indiana Court of Appeals.