The exponentially expanding volume of electronically stored information (ESI) has fundamentally changed litigation and dispute resolution. Potentially relevant information is created, stored, transferred and utilized in more complex and in more complete ways than ever before.

The attorneys in Wooden McLaughlin’s Convenience Store and Fuels Marketing Group know their way around transactions involving downstream and midstream players in the petroleum marketing industry.

The process of mediation resolves more cases than courts and arbitration, combined.  As courts continued to mandate mediation as part of the litigation process and parties began to voluntarily request mediation as a preferred method of resolution, Wooden McLaughlin’s mediators responded.  Wooden McLaughlin’s mediators weigh in on disputes ranging from complex commercial disputes to personal injury to domestic relations.  Wooden McLaughlin’s Mediation and Arbitration Group Lead, Ross E. Rudolph, has been named a distinguished neutral by the National Academy of Distinguished Neutrals, a prestigious and an invitation-only professional association whose membership is based upon experience.

We represent major financial institutions and other providers of capital and borrowers in structuring and closing all types of real estate financing. This year the firm is on track to close approximately $2 billion.

When disputes cannot be resolved without a lawsuit, Wooden McLaughlin’s litigation attorneys have you covered.  Our lawyers handle cases all over the country, as well as in our own backyards, in many areas of the law.  With three office locations throughout Indiana, Wooden McLaughlin’s litigators have the flexibility and the know-how to navigate courts, arbitrations, and mediations, guiding our clients through the adversarial process to successful resolution.

Wooden McLaughlin attorneys assist clients in offering warehouse lines of credit and loan participations to single and multi-family mortgage bankers. In a single year, we represented a client’s warehouse lending division in the funding of over $25 billion of mortgage loans.

Since November 2006, John D. Waller has been writing  the “Indiana Commercial Foreclosure Law” blog, which is considered Indiana’s preeminent online resource for lenders, borrowers, and guarantors struggling with secured loans in default.