Indiana Lawyers

Family and Divorce Law

550 Congressional Blvd., Suite 115, Carmel, IN 46032

Attorney Erin L. Connell is a top-rated attorney with more than 13 years of legal experience and co-founding and managing partner of Connell Michael Kerr, LLP. Ms. Connell devotes her practice primarily to family law, and she provides exceptional counsel and support to clients throughout the greater Indianapolis metro and surrounding areas who are going through divorces or have other serious legal issues affecting their families. Although she represents clients from all walks of life, Ms. Connell is a veteran of the United States Air Force and she routinely works with service members and their families in their divorce and family law situations. As a former Captain in the United States Air Force, she fully understands the unique and specialized needs military families have and she is able to more readily connect with them and assist them through their struggles while devising effective solutions and strategies to help them achieve their goals.

Medical Malpractice Law

233 E 84th Dr., 305, Merrillville, IN 46410

Heather Gilbert is the Administrative Partner of the firm’s Merrillville office. She also serves as a member of the firm's Executive Committee. Heather focuses her practice on health care litigation, including medical negligence and correctional health care, complex construction, employment, products liability, breach of contract, premises liability, transportation, professional negligence, and wrongful death matters. Heather maintains an aggressive motion practice, has obtained numerous pretrial dismissals for her clients, and has argued before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit and for the Indiana Court of Appeals. Prior to joining Cassiday Schade, Heather worked as an Assistant Corporation Counsel for the City of Chicago, where she represented the City and its employees in personal injury cases. Her work included successfully drafting and arguing several motions to dismiss and motions for summary judgment, as well as serving as lead counsel at numerous arbitrations and jury trials in Cook County, Illinois. Heather also worked for a Chicago law firm where she focused her practice on medical negligence, with an emphasis on hospital liability, and handled cases involving a wide range of medical specialties. While in law school, Heather served as an extern for the Honorable Kenneth F. Ripple of the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals. She was also a member of the Student Bar Association and served as Executive Articles Editor for Health Matrix: Journal of Law and Medicine. Heather is a member of several professional organizations including the American Society for Healthcare Risk Management, Chicagoland Healthcare Risk Management Society, Defense Trial Counsel of Indiana, Indiana State Bar Association, Lake County Bar Association, and the Women Lawyers’ Association of Indiana. She is also on the Board of Directors for the Indiana Society for Healthcare Risk Management.

Personal Injury Law

53600 N. Ironwood Dr, South Bend, IN 46635

Mr. James Barth graduated magna cum laude from Valparaiso Law School in 2016. He is an attorney at the law offices of Pfeifer Morgan & Stesiak, focusing his practice in the area of personal injury and advocating for clients who have suffered an injury or loss. Having clerked for both Federal and State trial courts, Mr. Barth gained valuable knowledge and experience in a courtroom setting. He is a valued asset to the firm, using his experiences from time served in the Marine Corps helping junior Marines through the issues they faced to make the law relatable to his clients. Mr. Barth is a member of the Indiana Trial Lawyers Association, Indiana Bar Association, and serves as Treasurer for the Porter County Inns of Court. Outside the office, James enjoys hiking, mushroom hunting, and watching movies with his wife.

Elder Law

102 S Union Street, Delphi, IN 46923

Personal Injury Law

3610 River Crossing Pkwy, Indianapolis, IN 46240, USA

For more than 25 years, Jeff's practice has focused exclusively on representing victims injured by negligence and families who have lost loved ones due to the carelessness of others. During his professional career, Jeff has represented thousands of injured victims and families who have lost loved ones due to motor vehicle collisions, semi-tractor trailer collisions, motorcycle accidents, train/grade crossing collisions, slip, trip and fall occurrences and construction site fatalities. Jeff is a member of the Indianapolis Bar Association, the Indiana State Bar Association, the Indiana Trial Lawyers Association and the American Association for Justice. Jeff has also been active in the Indiana Continuing Legal Education Forum, where he has served as a frequent lecturer and author on current issues and new developments in personal injury/insurance litigation, including how-to handle uninsured and underinsured motorist cases, special issues in automobile cases and how to handle a Wrongful Death estate in Indiana. Jeff graduated from Indiana University and the Indiana University School of Law.