The COVID-19 pandemic has upended lives and livelihoods all over the world and has generated a great amount of uncertainty in the process. While our worlds slowly open back up, it is a great time to think about estate planning. Estate planning is the process through which you make legal decisions about the disposition…
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Federal Court Expands Access to Indiana Liquor Licenses
This week, the Federal District Court for Southern Indiana issued a permanent injunction against Ind. Code § 7.1-3-21-5(a). This law prohibited possession of an Indiana alcoholic beverage retailer’s permit by Limited Liability Companies (“LLCs”) that contained more than 40% out-of-state ownership. There was an exception found in Ind. Code § 7.1-3-21-6(a)(10)(B)(i) that allowed out-of-state…
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Limited Liability Companies: The Building Blocks
Thinking about starting a business? Limited liability companies (LLCs) are one of the most used entity-types today due to their relatively straightforward formation requirements, flexibility, and protection from personal liability. Here are a few characteristics that distinguish LLCs from other entity-types: Articles of Organization Every LLC must file its Articles of Organization with the…
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Bunger & Robertson Welcomes Bailey Anstead – March 15, 2021
Bunger & Robertson is excited to welcome Bailey Anstead to our Legal Team. Bailey will be starting with the firm as an associate attorney on March 15th, 2021. A Bloomington native, Bailey is dedicated to serving the legal needs of her community. Bailey works primarily in the areas of business services, real estate, and transactional…
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Public Charge Rule Dismissed by the Supreme Court
On March 9, 2021 the Biden Administration dismissed their petition before the US Supreme Court to defend the “public charge rule.” The public charge rule was a Trump-era regulation that would make it very difficult for immigrants to obtain permanent residence if they had used public benefits, had a low income, and/or a limited…
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Lawsuits, pain and grief
Lawsuits tend to end when everyone has had enough pain, like most of our conflicts. The beginning of a lawsuit is not so different from other conflicts in our lives—we are sure we are right, and if the other person will just be reasonable they will come around to our way of thinking. When…
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B&R Announces 7 Attorneys Selected as Super Lawyers & Rising Stars
We at Bunger & Robertson are honored to announce that seven of our lawyers have been selected as 2021 Super Lawyers and Rising Stars. This year’s recipients include Samuel Ardery (Top 10 Lawyers) (The Annual List: Alternative Dispute Resolution); Joseph O’Connor (Business/Corporate); William J. Beggs (Civil Litigation: Defense); James L. Whitlatch (Health Care); Brian R. Drummy…
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No one wakes up wanting to need a lawyer
With rare exceptions, no one wakes up wanting to need a lawyer. I’ve done more than 4,000 mediations, and every single one, without exception, involved an occurrence in people’s lives that they did not want or anticipate. That is true whether it is a divorce, a catastrophic injury, a land condemnation, or siblings disagreeing…
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Jim Whitlatch and Ryan Heeb speak at The Chamber’s Speaker Series on COVID Vaccines – Tuesday, February 16th @ 12pm
Legal Issues & the Vaccine – Chamber’s Speaker Series with Jim Whitlatch and Ryan Heeb As COVID-19 vaccinations ramp up across the country, make sure your business understands the legal implications the vaccine can have in the workplace. Join us on Tuesday, February 16th from 12-1 pm to hear from Jim Whitlatch and Ryan Heeb on everything…
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Positively Conflicted by Sam Ardery
Sam Ardery has published Positively Conflicted. Sam draws on his decades of experience mediating more than four thousand disputes across the country as well as his own life experiences to provide insightful advice for engaging with courage, compassion and wisdom in a combative world. Positively Conflicted invites readers to reexamine their instinctive and often destructive…
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