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Graham: The kind of goodwill no marketing budget can buy
Can your escrow account actually enhance your goodwill? Absolutely. There’s hidden value in how we handle our clients’ funds.
Wilson: Microsoft tips: Solving Word’s automatic numbering issues
One of the most frustrating parts of Microsoft Word is its automatic behavior control, or ABC, feature as it relates to numbering.
Mizzell: From relief to reckoning—bankruptcy trends to watch in 2026
Although it is probably surprising to most, the pandemic and the related inflation did not give rise to a huge explosion in bankruptcy filings.
Melissa Hamer: A year loaded with environmental regulatory changes
Between Supreme Court rewrites of familiar statutes, extended methane deadlines, and Indiana’s new stormwater and water-pipeline rules, our regulated community spent 2025 chasing certainty.
Blake Hartz: A look at the year when generative AI became ‘legal’
The problem many AI companies have encountered is that their enormous training datasets contain enormous amounts of copyrighted content.
Ashley Hart: Handling grief during the holidays
Grief is a Long Play LP all on its own. It’s an intense collection of our losses, amplified by the expectations of the season. Many times, it is not the Hallmark movie soundtrack that we had in mind.
Dustin Houchin: Providing a furlough from jail is tradition, not state law
Much of what goes on in courtrooms is based on tradition and folklore rather than the text of the law. Take the furlough as an example.
Kayla Goodfellow: December doesn’t provide the recipe for having it all
There are times during the year when I can maintain the pleasant illusion of control. December offers no such mercy.
Deanna Marquez: Getting to the bottom of the metadata mayhem
Sometimes metadata is intentionally removed to protect exposure of sensitive details including names, comments, and revision history.
Brooke Burtnett and Kate Collins: Hoosier business owners need advocates who keep up
The ability to see around the corner, before legislation is filed and regulations finalized, has become a powerful competitive advantage.
David Dreyer: Is an avalanche of injunction requests on the way?
My traditional joy about injunctive relief may be facing a very practical challenge.
Katie S. Riles: What businesses need to know about new fraud prevention law
While the law’s stated purpose is to prevent fraudulent activity in Indiana, its most practical effects will be felt in how businesses list their addresses, use commercial mail services and handle required filing with the Indiana Secretary of State’s office.
Tony Paganelli: Here’s a practitioner’s checklist for litigating injunctions
Too many lawyers try to win their case at the temporary restraining order stage and lose credibility when they can’t explain why money damages won’t suffice later.
Madden & Clouse: Wicked problems and the people who work to solve them
Wicked problems require innovative leaders and a patchwork of approaches; cue, Indiana Justice Project and its Executive Director, Adam Mueller.
Dustin Houchin: How about we just let the bail reform movement die?
The bail reform movement is dying, but it is not yet dead.
Raio Krishnayya: Due process doesn’t stop at the border — or on social media
The framers of the Constitution did not invent due process; they inherited it from centuries of English law, most notably the Magna Carta’s promise that no person could be deprived of liberty except by the “law of the land.”
Dana Soeurt and Eric Wood: JLAP shines light on Delta-8, the new reefer madness
JLAP is not taking a position on the legalization debate. We simply want to illuminate a disturbing trend which we have witnessed firsthand—that is, the profound impact on mental health by Delta-8.
Roy Graham: When you are facing a jury, you just need to be yourself
If your seminar spent more than an hour on wardrobe choices, ask for a refund.
John Krull: Todd Rokita, the Indiana Supreme Court and bad choices
Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita and the Indiana Supreme Court made a set of linked choices regarding a second disciplinary complaint against Rokita—choices that will have consequences for the people of Indiana.