Indiana has a lawyer shortage. What might state lawmakers do to help?
Indiana’s legal community is raising alarms about a statewide shortage of attorneys that has already led to barren courtrooms leaving hundreds of Hoosiers unrepresented.
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Indiana’s legal community is raising alarms about a statewide shortage of attorneys that has already led to barren courtrooms leaving hundreds of Hoosiers unrepresented.
Indiana’s legal community is raising alarms about a statewide shortage of attorneys that has already led to barren courtrooms.
Indiana has about 2.3 lawyers per 1,000 residents—below the nationwide average of four lawyers. That puts the state in the bottom 10 nationally for available counsel.
Valparaiso, Indianapolis, Fishers and Evansville seemingly no longer have grounds to seek franchise fees from Netflix, DirectTV, Dish Network, Disney+ and Hulu.
Indiana is planning to finish pulling back its US$ 1.2 billion in pension investments parked in Chinese companies. Indiana’s funds will also be pulled from companies that do certain types of business with China, such as intelligence collecting. Indiana says it has managed to retrieve much of the US$ 1.2 billion and is moving ahead…