On Sunday Indiana Barrister linked to coverage regarding Indiana State’s possible creation of the state’s fifth law school. Most recently Adam Packer weighed in at In the Agora. The post was also published in today’s edition of the Evansville Courier & Press.

Marcia Oddi penned a post on plagiarism Monday, calling it “a serious problem with students at all levels of schooling.” She concludes with this: A fairly recent addition to the law student plagiarism equation is the fact that many law students now have blogs, or contribute to blogs. What should be the ramifications if a […]

It’s no secret that bad news sells newspapers, and criticisms constantly dominate editorial pages. But occassionally we must stop to smell the proverbial roses. With the announcement of condominium development in downtown Evansville, the city might be wise to do just that. New upscale condominiums under construction in the old downtown JC Penney are the […]

Advance Indiana carries interesting commentary about SB 45, a bill sponsored by Sen. Jeff Drozda (R) requiring high school health education curriculum to include instruction on: “the result of human sperm and egg convergence, the resulting development of human conception, the health consequences of early termination of pregnancy, photographic images portraying each state of uterine […]

I’m pleased to announce the addition of Casey M. Holsapple to the team of contributors at Indiana Barrister. Casey is an Evansville, Indiana native and a second year student at the Indiana University School of Law in Bloomington. He is active politically and is an avid fan of the Indiana Hoosiers, Pacers and Colts.

The TaxProfBlog links to an interesting article in the National Law Journal about rising attorney billing rates. One partner in particular, Benjamin Civiletti, charges $1,000 per hour: The partner charging up to $1,000 an hour at Venable is Benjamin Civiletti, the firm chairman and a 70-year-old partner in the firm’s Baltimore office who was the […]

From Saturday’s Fort Wayne Journal Gazette: Indiana State to Study Possibility of Opening Law School: Indiana State University officials are considering whether to start the state’s third public law school, saying many interested students are not being admitted elsewhere because of a lack of space. A feasibility study to be done by the school and […]

…Indiana became a state. On that day James Madison, President of the United States, approved the Congressional resolution formally admitting Indiana to the Union. That resolution read as follows: Resolution for admitting the State of Indiana into the Union. Whereas, in pursuance of an act of Congress, passed on the nineteenth day of April, one […]

The Cynic Center website has debuted and it will soon be hosting a new “Hoosier Cynic podcast” to cover Indiana politics. I’ll be participating in these podcasts on a regular basis. A few of the people already on board include Brian Howey, Ed Feigenbaum and Rick Wilkerson. Here is the CynicCenter’s press release: The ancient […]

State Senators Vaneta Becker and Larry Lutz, along with Representatives Suzanne Crouch, Dennis Avery, Phil Hoy, and Trent VanHaaften, will be holding a news conference at 2pm at the Evansville Civic Center today in room 301 in the City Council Chambers to discuss Evansville City-Vanderburgh County unification.