SouthBank Legal

Firm Contact: Timothy Curran

Practice areas: Appellate, Business Transactions and Finance, Commercial Litigation, Government Contracting, Healthcare, Intellectual Property, Labor and Employment, Local and Co-Counsel, Real Estate, Tax Controversy, Trusts and Estates, White Collar Defense and Investigations

Offices: Northern Indiana, Michigan, Washington, D.C.

SouthBank Legal, with offices in Indiana, Michigan, and Washington, D.C., is a boutique firm of distinction with clients ranging from multinational corporations to smaller companies to high-net-worth individuals. The firm has represented more than 25 Fortune 500 companies, including more than 15 in the Fortune 100. SouthBank Legal’s attorneys have been tested through the nation’s toughest cases and are tempered by experience in the country’s largest law firms. Many have extensive government experience, including in the Civil Rights Division and Tax Division of the Justice Department, multiple U.S. Attorney’s Offices, the FBI Office of General Counsel, the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, and the Marine Corps Judge Advocate Division. Half of SouthBank Legal’s attorneys clerked for federal judges, and many teach as adjunct professors at a Top 25 law school, with several running a preeminent trial advocacy program.

SouthBank Legal's clients compete in virtually every industry, from manufacturers of automobiles and medical devices to global banks and insurers to consumer goods and food conglomerates to online marketplaces and media giants. SouthBank Legal has helped clients survive multidistrict litigation involving thousands of liability claims, has earned the largest bench trial verdict in Indiana history, and has represented Fortune 500 companies in internal investigations with hundreds of millions of dollars at stake.

SouthBank Legal regularly partners with national firms in litigation in federal and state courts in the Midwest, providing local knowledge and expertise in a collaborative fashion. In this fashion, the firm has assisted Am Law 100 firms in obtaining significant recoveries and verdicts. SouthBank Legal prides itself on offering the credentials and experience of a large, international firm while providing the personal, cost-effective service of a boutique.

Commercial Litigation (Contact: John LaDue, 574.968.0769, [email protected])

SouthBank Legal’s Commercial Litigation team represents regional, national, and international businesses with complex disputes involving financial transactions, products liability and warranty, corporate shareholders and executives, and intellectual property.

Its clients’ business sectors include real estate and construction, investment funds and financial institutions, medical devices and life sciences, and automobiles and recreational vehicles. Among SouthBank Legal’s clients are high-profile entities in industries such as media, health, hospitality, food, consumer goods, e-retail, and higher education.

SouthBank Legal’s lawyers are formidable advocates with a strong record of positive results for their clients, including the largest bench trial verdict in Indiana history. SouthBank Legal has a lofty track record of victory in multidistrict litigation, contract disputes, trade secret and non-compete claims, products liability and warranty cases, claims under the Fair Labor Standards Act, and trademark and copyright infringement matters. For example, SouthBank Legal represents the nation’s largest mobile home/recreational vehicle manufacturers in their warranty and commercial matters. The firm also represents orthopedic manufacturers in their products liability litigation and universities in personal injury lawsuits brought by their students.

White Collar Defense and Investigations (Contact: Jesse Barrett, 202.467.8978, [email protected])

SouthBank Legal represents corporations and individuals in complex white-collar investigations and prosecutions across the country. Fortune 500 corporations have trusted SouthBank Legal to conduct internal investigations and coordinate litigation strategies with hundreds of millions of dollars at risk. In addition, the firm has defended individuals nationwide against a wide range of federal inquiries and charges and obtained excellent results, including closure of investigations and dismissal of indictments.

SouthBank Legal’s white-collar attorneys have served as federal prosecutors, DOJ Tax attorneys, Judge Advocates in the United States Marine Corps, and counsel to the FBI and Senate intelligence committees, and have practiced at international Am Law 100 firms. The firm also counts a former FBI agent as a member of its team.

Tax Controversy (Contact: Nathaniel Pollock, 202.391.0853, [email protected])

SouthBank Legal represents companies, partnerships, and high net-worth individuals in tax controversies with the IRS and in tax litigation. The firm’s tax controversy practice is led by an attorney who spent years representing the government in high-profile tax litigation involving millions (and at times even billions) of dollars and who left the Justice Department as one of two senior-level attorneys in the Tax Division’s Appellate Section. SouthBank Legal offers its clients the combination of a highly sophisticated understanding of the most complex tax issues, a developed talent for simplifying those issues into concise arguments, and a unique understanding of the motivations and thinking of the lawyers on the other side of the dispute. Those same abilities can help clients considering a particular tax position to evaluate the risk that it will be challenged by the IRS and the likelihood of overcoming the challenge

Local and Co-Counsel (Contact: Timothy Curran, 574.968.0771, [email protected])

SouthBank Legal is the firm of choice for companies and law firms requiring on-the-ground allies in the Northern and Southern Districts of Indiana, the Seventh Circuit, and Indiana state courts. The firm’s attorneys have extensive experience in managing complex matters with disparate and numerous co-counsels, as well as deep roots in the regional business community, enabling them to offer top-notch legal services to national organizations while helping save clients’ resources.