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Helping You Put Your Life Back On Track After A Serious Injury

Katherine M. Sheets

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Practice Areas

  • Civil Litigation
  • Estate Administration
  • Estate Litigation
  • General Business Matters
  • Business Litigation

Education

  • Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law, Indianapolis, Indiana
    • J.D. - 05/2018
    • Honors: summa cum laude
    • Honors: Graduate Certificate in Advocacy Skills
    • Honors: Named to the Moot Court Society Order of the Barristers in the fall of 2016
    • Honors: Indiana International and Comparative Law Review, Associate Member
    • Honors: Moot Court Board
    • Honors: Dean's List
  • Indiana University Bloomington
    • B.S., Bachelor of Science - 2011
    • Major: Biochemistry
  • Indiana University Bloomington
    • B.A., Bachelor of Arts
    • Major: Spanish

Bar Admissions

  • Indiana
  • U.S. District Court Northern District of Indiana
  • U.S. District Court Southern District of Indiana

Published Works

  • Recent Developments in Indiana Tort Law, 53 Ind. L. Rev. 1029 (2021) Co-author with Paul S. Kruse and Larry Morris
  • Recent Developments in Indiana Tort Law, 52 Ind. L. Rev. 817 (2019) Co-author with Paul S. Kruse and Larry Morris
  • Recent Developments in Indiana Tort Law, 51 Ind. L. Rev. 1217 (2018) Co-author with Paul S. Kruse and Larry Morris

Classes & Seminars

Pro-Bono Activities

  • Lebanon Educational Foundation, Board of Directors

Representative Clients

Ancillary Businesses

Fraternities or Sororities

Professional Associations

  • Community Foundation of Boone County, Board of Directors
  • Boone County Chamber of Commerce, Board of Directors

Representative Cases

  • Clark County REMC v. Reis, 178 N.E.3d 315 (Ind. 2021) [in an issue of first impression, reversing a judgment for former company directors in a breach of contract suit over terminated fringe benefits]

Honors

  • Mitzi H. Martin Best Advocate in the Preliminary Rounds of the Staton Competition Award
  • Indiana Super Lawyers Magazine in 2022, 2023, and 2024 as a Rising Star

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