D Rusty Denton

Practice Areas

usty handles a wide variety of employment and commercial litigation matters, representing clients in pre-dispute counseling and negotiations, alternative dispute resolution, administrative proceedings, discovery, injunction hearings, trials and appeals.

Rusty represents employers in the full range of employment matters, regularly providing clients with general advice and counsel on employment policies and practices and on employee discipline and termination. He represents employers in litigation before agencies and courts on all types of employment claims, including discrimination, wage disputes and wrongful termination. He has also represented clients in commercial litigation in both state and federal courts involving claims of breach of contract, breach of fiduciary duty, common law fraud, conversion, defamation, non-compete and non-disclosure violations, shareholder misconduct, trade secret misappropriation and inevitable disclosure, torts, tortious interference and unfair competition.

Professional Memberships

Indianapolis Bar Association, Board of Managers, 1995-1996, 2000-2004, 2010-present; Counsel to Board, 2002; Secretary, 2003-2004; Image Task Force Chair, 2001-2002; Focus Group Co-Chair, 2000; Pro Bono Task Force Member, 1999; Young Lawyers Division Chair, 1996

Indiana State Bar Association

American Bar Association

Seventh Circuit Bar Association

Indianapolis Federal Bar Association, President, 2001-2002; Vice President, 2000; Treasurer, 1998-1999; Member, 1995-present

Indiana Federal Community Defenders, Inc. (federal public defender office); Vice President, 2005-2006; Member, 2002-2009

Education