Debra H Miller
Indiana Business Lawyer - Indianapolis Business Litigation Attorney - Indiana Employment Litigation Lawyer
Miller & Fisher, LLC, is a Certified Women's Business Enterprise whose AV Rated lawyers represent business clients in the Indianapolis Metropolitan area and from across Indiana as a whole. As a firm, we provide a broad range of legal services and experienced representation in a number of different business-related practice areas. Our specific areas of focus include:
* Risk Analysis and Litigation Avoidance including consulting services, 'corporate physicals', contract review, and more
* Business Litigation including shareholder disputes, construction contract disputes, disputes involving real estate, trust, and probate litigation, exclusive supply contract disputes, ERISA litigation, and more
* Employment Law for Employers including restrictive covenants, non-compete agreements, executive contracts, executive compensation, discrimination, sexual harassment, wrongful termination, and more
* Commercial Real Estate Litigation representing real estate brokers, buyers, sellers, partners, and others in matters such as breach of contract claims, mold remediation, and more
* Construction Law as a certified women's business enterprise handling all construction-related disputes
* Shareholder Disputes representing majority and minority shareholders in matters involving excessive executive compensation, buy-sell agreements, business or law firm dissolutions, and more
* Federal Litigation handling federal court litigation and appeals
* Appeals Practice including cases involving business litigation, employment law, construction law, real estate law, ERISA, and personal injury appeals in Indiana and Federal Courts
Board Certified Civil Trial Lawyer - National Board of Legal Specialty Certification
Debra H Miller
Miller & Fisher LLC
8900 Keystone Crossing #1080
Indianapolis IN 46240
Tel: 317 536-7577
Fax: 317 536-7579
E-mail: miller@millerfisher.com
Practice Areas
* Business Litigation
Debra Miller practices primarily in business litigation. She has been certified as a specialist in civil trial advocacy by the National Board of Trial Advocacy, based upon her trial experience and other criteria. She was elected to the American Board of Trial Advocacy based upon some of the same criteria, and is Past President of its Indiana Chapter. She is a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers. She has tried more than forty jury trials, involving issues of breach of contract, vicarious liability, breach of fiduciary duty, fraud, employee benefit plan losses, conversion, shareholder liability, insurance coverage, catastrophic personal injury, wrongful death, and bad faith. She has represented clients in litigation pending in Tennessee, Pennsylvania, Florida, and Texas, and before the Indiana Court of Appeals, the Indiana Supreme Court, and the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago, as well as the Indiana Federal District and State trial courts.
Debra has provided litigation services to numerous U.S. companies, as both plaintiff and defendant, on a wide array of matters, including labor and employment issues, real estate disputes, and probate litigation. She has negotiated resolution of a variety of complex matters during her career, and has represented clients at all stages of the litigation process, including alternative dispute resolution, discovery, trial, and appeal. She has counseled clients in risk management, crisis management, and litigation avoidance techniques. She has also trained numerous young litigators on trial technique and strategy.
Debra holds an "AV" rating from Martindale-Hubbell, the highest rating for lawyers, based upon a poll of other lawyers practicing in the same community. The "AV" rating is defined as "very high to pre-eminent" in her field of practice. She has been listed as an Indiana Super Lawyer by Indianapolis Monthly based upon a survey of over 14,000 attorneys in Indiana, and has been listed as one of the top 25 women lawyers in Indiana based upon the same survey.
Debra joined Ice Miller LLP in 1984, upon earning her juris doctorate, cum laude, from the Indiana University School of Law, Indianapolis, where she was an associate editor of the Law Review. She was a partner in the Litigation and Labor and Employment Sections, Chair of the 60-lawyer Litigation Section, and EEO Compliance Officer for the firm. Debra left Ice Miller LLP to become a founding partner of Miller & Fisher, LLC, in 2006.
Debra chaired the Project PEACE Subcommittee of the Civil Rights of Children Committee of the Indiana State Bar Association, which implemented peer dispute resolution in many Indiana schools, including the Indianapolis Public Schools. She was a member of the Indiana State Bar Association's Internet and Electronic Communications Committee. She is on the Board of Directors for the Children's Bureau, Inc.
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