February 6, 2010
Scott OlsonPlews Shadley Racher & Braun has finished a careful restoration of the Eden-Talbott House, continuing a strategy of shunning
glass and steel.
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November 30, 2009
Greg AndrewsFair Finance Co. remained closed Monday morning, adding to the anxiety of Ohioans who have purchased about $200 million of
the company's investment certificates.
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November 30, 2009
Brock BenefielA proposal to strengthen Indianapolis’ workplace smoking ban is set to come before the City-County Council on Monday
night, but one of the bill’s sponsors wants to send it back to committee for more work before a final vote.
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November 28, 2009
Greg AndrewsAny case federal prosecutors pursue against Tim Durham or his associates likely would revolve around what his Fair Finance
Co. disclosed—or didn’t disclose—to potential investors, legal observers said.
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November 28, 2009
Norm HeikensMost states--Indiana included--have no law on the books banning video surveillance in homes or businesses. However, anyone
considering using a hidden camera should consider the potential to be sued under the state's well-developed privacy law.
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November 25, 2009
Greg AndrewsMarion County Prosecutor Carl Brizzi said he agreed this fall to serve on the board of Tim Durham’s Fair Finance
Co., but changed his mind several weeks later after Durham told him a newspaper was working on an investigative
story about the company.
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November 24, 2009
Greg AndrewsOhio securities regulators say Tim Durham's Fair Finance Co. won't be permitted to sell additional investment certificates
unless it satisfactorily answers a series of questions about the company's ability to pay them back.
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November 18, 2009
Cory SchoutenA judge on Wednesday afternoon sentenced Christopher P. White to one year on home detention and three years of probation in
connection with a $500,000 bad check he wrote last year as he tried to save his real estate development firm, Premier Properties
USA Inc.
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November 14, 2009
IBJ StaffBingham McHale partner Roderick Morgan has been named president of the association. He is the first black lawyer to lead the
ISBA.
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November 13, 2009
Scott OlsonA spate of office openings and an acquisition have helped catapult Barnes & Thornburg LLP into the upper echelon of the nation's
largest law firms, at a time when the slumbering economy has forced most big firms to cut staff.
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November 11, 2009
Eli Lilly and Co. has agreed to pay Utah $24 million to settle a lawsuit claiming the company improperly marketed the antipsychotic
drug Zyprexa.
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October 27, 2009
IBJ Staff and Associated PressA lawyer says Irving Materials Inc. has agreed to pay $29 million to settle a class-action antitrust lawsuit alleging it and
six other companies conspired to fix the price of ready-mixed concrete.
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October 23, 2009
IBJ Staff and Associated PressSouth Carolina Attorney General Henry McMaster said Friday that the state has reached a $45 million settlement with drug maker
Eli Lilly and Co. over the company's marketing of an anti-psychotic drug.
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October 7, 2009
IBJ StaffEli Lilly and Co. has agreed to settle the State of South Carolina's lawsuit that claimed Lilly improperly marketed the antipsychotic
drug Zyprexa, according to Bloomberg News.
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October 1, 2009
IBJ StaffAn administrative complaint filed today by the Indiana Secretary of State's Office alleges Stifel Nicolaus failed to disclose
risks associated with the sale of auction-rate securities to 141 Hoosiers who invested $54.9 million.
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September 30, 2009
Cory SchoutenCharter Homes owner Jerry J. Jaquess has been sentenced to two-and-a-half years in prison and ordered to pay restitution of
$825,000 for his role in a $20 million mortgage fraud scheme.
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September 30, 2009
Peter SchnitzlerA London-based hedge fund has sued Brightpoint Inc. over a $10 million loan it alleges the Indianapolis-based cell phone distributor
fraudulently brokered in anticipation of an acquisition in France that never materialized.
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September 26, 2009
Peter SchnitzlerBren Simon likely will inherit at least one-third of her billionaire husband’s fortune and potentially much more,
wealth managers speculate, based on the legal and tax issues involved in such a large estate.
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September 24, 2009
Scott OlsonA decision by a federal judge in Indianapolis to turn back a patent challenge to Eli Lilly and Co.'s Evista marks a major
victory for the company, says an analyst who closely follows the pharmaceutical industry.
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September 19, 2009
Peter SchnitzlerLocally based Broadbent Co., one of the city’s biggest retail developers, has sued two of its banks, charging they’re
wrongly attempting to restrict its access to a $50 million credit line.
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September 8, 2009
Scott OlsonMerger talks that began last year between local legal heavyweight Ice Miller LLP and a Louisville-based law firm reportedly
have broken down, putting an end to a deal that was expected to close by the end of the year.
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September 5, 2009
Cory SchoutenLauth Group Inc. in recent weeks has won critical courtroom victories that likely will allow company principals
to retain control of three subsidiaries in Chapter 11 bankruptcy.
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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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August 31, 2009
Scott OlsonA federal judge this morning sentenced a former Indianapolis business owner to 18 months in prison after he pleaded guilty
to bank fraud in May.
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August 25, 2009
Greg AndrewsThe insider-trading settlements announced by the Securities and Exchange Commission this week were an outgrowth of a broader
inquiry into trading in First Indiana Corp. by dozens of people before its sale two years ago, according to a former director
of the bank.
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It's also across the street from Fogo de Chao and Morton's....
Yep, the haters are trying to make good news bad. I guess it is hard to get people to believe the series is dying when they are gaining new sponsors.
David Copperfield! I remember watching his specials on TV when I was little.
Don't forget this is next to an MMA gym, a pawn shop, and some abandoned spaces.
Good project for Zionsville - A group who has owned the property for many years has waited and worked patiently to bring highest and best use development to a major corridor, and mix that in with the great downtown you have. Win Win. All the Best to Pittman Partners and Zionsville.