As 2020 ticks to a close, IndyBar sections and divisions are in the process of evaluating their committee rosters and determining vacancies for 2021. Now is the perfect time to indicate your interest in serving on a committee. While space is limited, every effort will be made to involve anyone expressing interest in some capacity.

The Marion County Judicial Selection Committee is beginning the process of selecting names to send to Governor Holcomb to fill a Republican vacancy on the Marion Superior Court. The vacancy will occur when Judge Lisa Borges retires on December 31, 2020.

We are eight months into wading through COVID-19. I have heard several people talk about feeling more depressed, anxious and tired. Make a conscious effort to rest and recharge. Here are some simple ways to cope.

We laugh about pandemic parenting, online learning, and socially distant play for children. Underneath the humor is the larger fact base—this pandemic is broadly affecting children’s lives. It’s crept into their education, their extracurricular activities, their home lives, their ability to connect with friends, their access to libraries, their access to needed services, and generally, their visibility into the world. They are isolated in little pandemic quarantine bubbles with their families, and maybe a quarantine family buddy.

With the pandemic and the courts shutting down for a while, we have all gotten a break from using our trial skills. As with most things, trial skills fall into the “use ‘em or lose ‘em” category, and now that court is resuming, it’s the perfect time to review, refresh and ask questions.

The judges of Marion County Courts have given notice of proposed amendments to the local court rule LR49-FR00-503 NOTICE OF SPECIAL DISCLOSURE REQUIREMENTS.

As recently reported by multiple news outlets, the divorce proceeding of Andre (Dr. Dre) Young and Nicole Young has recently gotten more contentious as she now seeks to invalidate their prenuptial agreement on multiple grounds. Whether Nicole Young’s claims are meritorious or not, this article highlights some of the claims that a spouse might make in an attempt to invalidate a prenuptial agreement and serves as a reminder to practitioners of the importance of executing the agreement well in advance of the wedding ceremony.

The IndyBar Family Law Section is excited to announce nominations are now being accepted for the 2020 Family Law Section Award. The purpose of this award is to recognize those individuals and/or organizations who have made contributions to the legal profession and the communit

As you begin to return to the office and reopen your practice, you may be feeling a little anxious about the unknown. The landscape has changed and we need to make sure we are all doing our part to keep ourselves, our families, our co-workers and our clients safe. There are a few things you can do to prepare to re-open your practice.

As lawyers, many of our relationships are governed by our rules of professional conduct. For the most part, these rules place burdens, limits and duties on us. The judge-lawyer relationship, however, is governed by interlocking rules from both sides. In our practices, lawyers are limited in what we can say to a judge, as well as when and how we say it. We may really want to let the judge know what we think is going on in a case, or we may really want to know what the judge is thinking on an issue, but often can’t just say or ask what we want.