September 5, 2009
IBJ StaffA co-founder of Hall Render Killian Heath & Lyman PC is returning to the downtown law firm more than a decade after
he left it. Rex Killian will lead the firm’s governance consulting practice, which serves both not-for-profit
and for-profit health care clients.
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July 7, 2009
IBJ StaffLed by Baker & Daniels LLP, Indianapolis' three largest law firms are recognized in the July issue of The American
Lawyer magazine for their pro bono work.
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June 29, 2009
Arend AbelFed up with excessive fees, some clients have started demanding alternatives to the tried-and-true methods, such as "value-based
legal services."
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June 29, 2009
Michael KellerFledgling attorneys face a legal industry in defensive mode, resulting in drooping employment figures.
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June 22, 2009
Scott OlsonThe city's third-largest law firm is poised to tie the knot with Kentucky's Greenebaum Doll & McDonald. But differences in
the way the firms compensate partners are taking longer than expected to sort out.
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June 15, 2009
Greg AndrewsBose McKinney & Evans' defense of an Evansville company in a high-stakes environmental-contamination lawsuit has degenerated
into a fiasco, with a federal judge sanctioning both the client Red Spot Paint & Varnish Co. and law firm and ordering
each to pay half the plaintiff's
legal bills.
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February 16, 2009
Two partners at the Bingham McHale LLP law firm are taking five lawyers with them to form a firm that will concentrate on
insurance defense work.
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December 29, 2008
Scott OlsonIndianapolis law firms finally jumped in a big way into the merger mania that's sweeping the legal profession.
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December 15, 2008
The recently announced mergers of Indianapolis law firms Sommer Barnard, Ice Miller and Locke Reynolds with firms outside
the state [reported in the Dec. 8 issue] mirror a larger national trend.
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December 8, 2008
Scott OlsonIndianapolis is finally jumping in a big way into the merger mania that's sweeping the legal profession.
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November 10, 2008
Indianapolis law firm Baker & Daniels LLP has formed an advanced manufacturing and logistics practice to be headed by
partner James S. Birge.
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July 14, 2008
Anthony SchoettleSports agent Andrew "Buddy" Baker has left locally based law firm Ice Miller and is taking with him the firm's sports division,
IM Sports Services, which he wants to develop into a giant agency with a national reach. Baker's new firm, Exclusive Sports
Group, starts with a list of high-profile clients.
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June 30, 2008
Cory SchoutenA Maryland company has taken ownership of downtown's 28-story M&I Plaza just three months before a major tenant departure
leaves the skyscraper 70-percent vacant. The new owner is CapitalSource Inc., a commercial finance and investment firm based
in Chevy Chase, Md. It had been a lender to the former owner, which defaulted.
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November 19, 2007
Jennifer WhitsonThree members of a small, young, downtown law firm played key rolls in Republican election wins this month, boosting the firm's
profile as it tackles aggressive growth plans that include beefing up its lobbying business. John Lewis and Wilkins LLP set
up shop on Monument Circle in 2005 and since then has grown from the three attorneys to 11.
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August 29, 2005
Scott OlsonAttorney Irwin Levin stood in a courtroom years ago for a pretrial conference when a colleague began to ridicule a rival firm's
slogan. Overhearing the diatribe, the judge asked Levin whether his law office had a mantra. Without hesitation, he quipped:
"We're going to kick your ass." The room erupted in laughter. While Levin, 51, might have answered in jest, the managing partner
of Cohen & Malad LLP indeed has built a national reputation for bloodying the noses of large...
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Saw the Indy Men's Chorus "Music of Gilbert & Sullivan" at the Indiana Historical Society on Sunday evening.
Temporary workers are not "tools" they are people and companies that keep large amounts of temp staff are cheating.
I miss having them around. I hope one of their stores is in the general Meridian/86th Street area. I will make good use of it.
The Fringe! Plus, the simple fact that there are so many local faves in such close proximity to each other.
I remenber, watching the toll road, being built, through South Bend, when I was 10 years old. I believe, back then that it was estimated, that the toll road, would be paid for in 20 years and then it would be free. I am now 71, what happened? Since the power is in the people, by that, I mean that, we the people are in total control of everything. I, suggest that no one ever use the toll road again, let it go broke. We the people can control the price of everything, from groceries to gas, if we would just do it. If we don't pay the asking price, the sellers will lower the price and if we wait awhile, they will lower the price to what we accept as reasonable. I would like to know why a highway like interstate 94, is so well maintained, a much better highway, than the toll road, but has no tolls. I would also like to know why, a sitting governor, with a term limit, maximum of eight years, can lease, public property, for 75 years. Even though I have transponders in both of my trucks and will not be affected by the increase, I have been and will contine to avoid using the toll road. I make many trips from northern Indiana to Chicago, every year, and I prefer the better highway, I94!