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Barnes & Thornburg acquires Minneapolis firm-WEB ONLY

Indianapolis-based Barnes & Thornburg LLP is expanding yet again by acquiring a law firm in Minneapolis. The firm announced today it would absorb 22 lawyers at The Parsinen Law Firm PA in a deal that takes effect July 1. It is the third out-of-state law office Barnes & Thornburg has opened or acquired this year. […]

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Law grants teachers immunity from civil suits

Educators widely support a new state law that gives teachers immunity from civil lawsuits for trying to discipline students.
But opponents of corporal punishment are giving it a frosty reception, fearing Indiana students could be subjected to more
paddling without legal recourse.

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Law firm still in merger talks-WEB ONLY

Merger talks that began last year between Ice Miller LLP and a Louisville-based law firm continue to progress toward a deal, sources familiar with the negotiations said. IBJ reported in December that the city’s third-largest law firm was poised to tie the knot with Greenebaum Doll & McDonald PLLC. But operational differences-namely in the way […]

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State budget plan cuts $70M in tech funding-WEB ONLY

Supporters of a state program that invests in high-tech startups are rallying to restore its $70 million appropriation to a budget proposal under consideration by legislators. Democrats who control the Indiana House of Representatives advanced their version of a new state budget to the full chamber Monday after the House Ways and Means Committee endorsed […]

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State budget plan cuts $70M in tech funding-WEB ONLY

Supporters of a state program that invests in high-tech startups are rallying to restore its $70 million appropriation to a budget proposal under consideration by legislators. Democrats who control the Indiana House of Representatives advanced their version of a new state budget to the full chamber Monday after the House Ways and Means Committee endorsed […]

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New Facebook policy creates threat for companies-WEB ONLY

Companies with a Facebook presence may now be vulnerable to so-called cybersquatters if they failed to register a new user name as part of a policy introduced by the popular networking site. Facebook on Saturday began allowing users to select personalized, easy-to-remember Web addresses that incorporate their own names, nicknames or trademarks. The new usernames […]

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Sanctioned firm agrees to pay legal fees-WEB ONLY

Bose McKinney & Evans LLP has agreed to pick up part of the opposing counsel’s legal tab in an environmental-contamination case in which a federal judge sanctioned both the Indianapolis-based law firm and its client for withholding evidence. Details of the settlement reached Friday are confidential. But the legal tab split between Bose and its […]

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State cites studies backing CIB merger savings-WEB ONLY

Scott Olson solson@IBJ.com The Indiana Office of Management & Budget yesterday released details of two studies used to arrive at the $13 million it said could be saved by combining the Capital Improvement Board and the Marion County Building Authority into one organization. State officials initially had declined to make the studies available to the […]

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Life sciences firm Seradyn closing-WEB ONLY

Indianapolis life sciences firm Seradyn Inc. notified the Indiana Department of Workforce Development yesterday that it would close at the end of the year, leaving 114 employees out of work. Seradyn, part of Massachusetts-based Thermo Fisher Scientific, develops laboratory methods called “assays” that use antibodies to measure drug concentrations in the bloodstream. The company, located […]

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Life sciences firm Seradyn closing-WEB ONLY

Indianapolis life sciences firm Seradyn Inc. notified the Indiana Department of Workforce Development yesterday that it would close at the end of the year, leaving 114 employees out of work. Seradyn, part of Massachusetts-based Thermo Fisher Scientific, develops laboratory methods called “assays” that use antibodies to measure drug concentrations in the bloodstream. The company, located […]

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State cites studies backing CIB merger savings-WEB ONLY

The Indiana Office of Management & Budget yesterday released details of two studies used to arrive at the $13 million it said could be saved by combining the Capital Improvement Board and the Marion County Building Authority into one organization. State officials initially had declined to make the studies available to the public. Indiana Gov. […]

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Area home sales, prices continue to decline-WEB ONLY

Home-sale agreements in the nine-county Indianapolis area remain well below levels of a year ago, according to a report released today by F.C. Tucker Co. Normal 0 false false false MicrosoftInternetExplorer4   Pended home sales in May were down 11 percent from the same month a year ago, falling from 2,501 to 2,227, the Indianapolis-based […]

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Area home sales, prices continue to decline-WEB ONLY

Home-sale agreements in the nine-county Indianapolis area remain well below levels of a year ago, according to a report released today by F.C. Tucker Co. Pended home sales in May were down 11 percent from the same month a year ago, falling from 2,501 to 2,227, the Indianapolis-based real estate company said. Year-to-date, the decline […]

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CIB president says he supports merger plan-WEB ONLY

Capital Improvement Board President Bob Grand today declined to predict the future for the cash-strapped sports facilities agency, but said he backs a proposal that would merge the CIB into a new organization. “I’m 100 percent in support of their solution,” he said, referring to the plan presented last Thursday by Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels […]

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Emmis exec pay slides with company’s performance-WEB ONLY

Executives of Emmis Communications Corp. collectively earned 25 percent less in fiscal 2009 compared with the prior year, according to a filing sent to shareholders today notifying them of the company’s July 14 annual meeting. The decrease in pay coincides with recent financial struggles plaguing the Indianapolis-based radio-broadcasting and magazine-publishing company. Emmis CEO Jeff Smulyan […]

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CIB members to discuss new plan today-WEB ONLY

The city’s Capital Improvement Board will meet today for the first time since Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels and Indianapolis Mayor Greg Ballard presented their plan to rescue the financially troubled entity. Last Thursday, the two proposed raising hotel, rental car and sports-admission taxes, and merging the CIB into a new agency, to raise the funds […]

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Emmis exec pay slides with company’s performance-WEB ONLY

Normal 0 false false false MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 Executives of Emmis Communications Corp. collectively earned 25 percent less in fiscal 2009 compared with the prior year, according to a filing sent to shareholders today notifying them of the company’s July 14 annual meeting. The decrease in pay coincides with recent financial struggles plaguing the Indianapolis-based radio-broadcasting and […]

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