By:  Amy L. Elson Parties contract with one another to memorialize their mutual understanding of their agreements, to provide structure and certainty to their agreements, and to control and allocate risk associated with their agreements.  They enter into a contract with the intention of… Read More >

By:  Courtney M. McCormick The Indiana Court of Appeals recently reversed a trial court ruling finding that health care providers who removed part of a patient’s lung after a biopsy sample was misread as likely cancerous were entitled to summary judgment in St. Mary’s… Read More >

By: Melanie M. Dunajeski The Fair Credit Reporting Act was recently amended to address consumer privacy concerns arising from data breaches. If you are an employer who performs background checks on your employees or applicants by using third party consumer reporting agencies, you need… Read More >

DSV Partner Barclay Wong was recently reappointed as the Vice Chair of the DRI’s Medical Liability and Health Care Law Committee at the DRI’s Annual Meeting.  The DRI Medical Liability and Health Care Law Committee has over 1500 members and is one of the… Read More >

By:  Scott Fisher With the current construction activity in high gear, this author has been contacted several times in regard to runoff that has caused damage to neighboring properties.  Invariably, the situation centers around a construction project (whether commercial or residential) which has altered… Read More >

By:  Alyssa C. Hughes The great (or at least famous) Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., wrote a seminal piece for the great (or at least famous) Harvard Law Review in 1897 that made a quite daring argument: the study of law is the study not… Read More >

By:  David A. Temple On June 8, 2018, the Indiana Court of Appeals affirmed the Indianapolis Historic Preservation Commission’s August 3, 2016 decision to allow Dan Jacob’s “Block 20” project in the Lockerbie Square Historic District in Indianapolis to proceed. Lockerbie Glove Factory Town… Read More >