Brad A. Catlin
Practice Areas:
Class Action Litigation, Pharmaceutical Litigation, Products Liability, Personal Injury, Legal Malpractice, Business Litigation
Education:
J.D., University of Notre Dame School of Law
A.B cum laude, Wabash College
Honors and Awards:
Honors Scholar, Wabash College; Judicial Clerk to Judge Mary DeGenaro, Ohio Court of Appeals
Bar Admissions:
Indiana, 1999
Ohio, 2008
Memberships & Associations:
Indiana State Bar Association
Indiana Trial Lawyers Association
Indianapolis Bar Association
International Society of Primerus Law Firms
Profile:
Brad specializes in representing consumers and businesses in complex litigation. He has tried cases involving business litigation, legal malpractice, and complex property disputes and is actively engaged in other complex and class action litigation. Some of the legal matters he has dealt with involve insurer bad faith, pharmaceutical drug litigation, toxic tort litigation, product liability, and personal injury, in multiple jurisdictions within the United States. Brad also has been assigned as Class Counsel in a lawsuit against State Farm for a breach of its duty to treat its insureds with good faith in the wake of hail storms, which is currently pending before the United States Supreme Court.
Brad speaks regularly to other attorneys on various legal matters. For example, he has spoken on multiple occasions for the Indianapolis Law Club and the Indiana Trial Lawyers Association and will be hosting a nationwide webinar on legal topics this fall. Brad also edits the Indiana Law Update, a blog devoted to providing up-to-date information about developments in Indiana law to Indiana lawyers.
Brad is a native of Westfield, Indiana and attended Wabash College as an Honor Scholar. He graduated from Wabash cum laude with an A.B. in Political Science and obtained his law degree from the University of Notre Dame School of Law. While in law school, Brad worked for Jones Obenchain, LLP, a law firm in South Bend, Indiana. Brad has also served as a law clerk to Hon. Mary DeGenaro of Ohio's Seventh District Court of Appeals where he provided assistance with many complex legal issues and class action litigation cases. While working for Judge DeGenaro, Brad helped prepare material for the Ohio exam governing certification as a specialist in Appellate Law.




