Join us June 11-13 in French Lick for Bench Bar 2026, where members of the bench and bar come together for CLE, networking, and meaningful professional connection. This year’s program features keynote presentations from Super Bowl champion Gary Brackett on adaptability and David "DJ" Gross on practical AI skills, along with breakout sessions covering topics like digital assets, crimmigration, voir dire strategy, and judicial best practices. With opportunities to unwind through golf, pickleball, yoga, and evening social events, the conference blends practical learning with the chance to strengthen relationships across the legal community.

Learn more at indybar.org/benchbar.

Join us June 11-13 in French Lick for Bench Bar 2026, where members of the bench and bar come together for CLE, networking, and meaningful professional connection. This year’s program features keynote presentations from Super Bowl champion Gary Brackett on adaptability and David "DJ" Gross on practical AI skills, along with breakout sessions covering topics like digital assets, crimmigration, voir dire strategy, and judicial best practices. With opportunities to unwind through golf, pickleball, yoga, and evening social events, the conference blends practical learning with the chance to strengthen relationships across the legal community.

Learn more at indybar.org/benchbar.

Since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, health care providers and entities have embraced and incorporated telehealth as a way of providing care to patients who would otherwise have lost access because of regulatory restrictions or their own hesitation with traveling to treatment centers. To remove barriers to telehealth, federal and state regulators waived or exempted prior restrictions related to the provision of telehealth at the outset of the pandemic. Since many of these waivers and exemptions were only temporary, providers and entities that deliver or offer telehealth need to be cognizant of and keeping pace with evolving compliance requirements.

While working at home, for albeit a relatively short period of time, I realized that the health of my professional working relationships was suffering. Perhaps you are still working from home. Perhaps you are still primarily attending meetings virtually. Perhaps you feel the same way.

In a 7-1 decision in the opinion for Azar v. Allina Health Services, issued June 3, the U.S. Supreme Court held that the Department of Health and Human Services failed to undergo proper notice-and-comment rulemaking in its new calculations for disproportionate share hospital payments.  

This section of the Indianapolis Bar Association is in the process of selecting its Executive Committee members for 2018. We currently have an active Executive Committee, which meets monthly in order to plan and execute social events, educational programming and community service initiatives.

Earlier this week, the United States Supreme Court heard 85 minutes of arguments relating to a second major challenge to the Affordable Care Act. Find out more in this post.