Legal

To enhance safety for motorists and pedestrians, the City of Valparaiso will be stepping up enforcementefforts for traffic violations that lead to accidents, particularly speeding. “We simply want to remind motorists of speed limits and safe...

Porter County Judge Christopher Buckley believes in the power of second chances, and he shows this every day as the presiding judge for Porter County’s Mental Health Restoration Court.  As a part of one of several problem-solving courts in Porter...

On January 1, the first day of the new year, supporters, family members, and citizens of Valparaiso gathered at city hall to watch as their newest elected officials were sworn-in.  An optimistic atmosphere filled the hall as spectators chattered...

Featured image courtesy of Purdue University. In over three decades of service, Hartman Global Intellectual Property (IP) Law has had the opportunity to work with hundreds of innovators, researchers, and other pioneers to protect their creations and...

The world of intellectual property (IP) law is a complex, multi-layered one with different countries sporting different sets of regulations. Yet it goes deeper than that – even within the U.S. there are layers, as individual states each enforce...

For decades, when the Region needed legal advice on issues of family law, it turned to John Rhame III at Rhame, Elwood & McClure, PC. Rhame has been practicing law for over 40 years and has handled more than 4,000 family law cases in the Region,...

Marc Ruiz: Times Columnist The IRS recently announced some extremely important updates for beneficiaries of inherited IRAs, and parts of the update are very timely as we head into 2023. The SECURE Act passed in 2019 and implemented in 2020 made a...

One of Rhame and Elwood's newest attorneys, Michael (Mike) Brazil, brings a strong background of practicing family law to his new position at the Portage firm. Brazil graduated from the Valparaiso University Law School in 2019 where he had been a...

Before joining the Rhame & Elwood team in May, Attorney Devon DeMarco was working at a Chicago-based general practice firm. Prior to that, however, DeMarco’s journey in the world of law began on the east coast.  A New Jersey native,...

BBB receiving reports of scammer posing as a lottery winner donating funds The BBB serving Northern Indiana has issued a warning to consumers about a reported text message scam. The scammer poses as a lottery winner named Manuel Franco. He...