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James E. O'Gallagher is a partner in the Crown Point office where he concentrates in workers compensation, insurance coverage, fraud and employment matters. He has extensive experience in civil litigation and represents employers, third-party administrators and insurance companies throughout Indiana. He has successfully tried numerous cases, litigated before the Indiana Court of Appeals, and argued more than 20 cases before the Full Board of the Indiana Workers' Compensation Board.

Jim is admitted to practice before Indiana state courts and the United States District Courts in the Northern and Southern Districts of Indiana. He is a member of the Worker's Compensation Section of the Defense Trial Counsel of Indiana. Since 2005, he has been on the adjunct faculty at Loyola University Chicago where he teaches contract law. He received his J.D. from Indiana University School of Law at Bloomington in 1990 and received a B.A. in political science from Marquette University in 1987.

Jim frequently conducts seminars and speaks to professional groups as well as writes on the topics of worker's compensation and employment law. Some examples of his presentations include:

American Bar Association: Settlement of Complicated Worker's Compensation Cases: Defense Perspective
ADR User Group: Indiana Workers’ Compensation
CEU Institute: Handling Premises Liability and Slip and Fall Cases
Core Source: Recent Changes in Indiana Worker's Compensation Law
Indiana Worker's Compensation Institute: Recent Developments in Indiana Worker's Compensation
Lorman Educational Services:

Employment and Labor Law in Indiana
Indiana Insurance Law: Bad Faith and Other Collateral Actions in Worker's Compensation
Benefit Schemes and Disability Determinations
Worker's Compensation Update

National Business Institute:

Worker's Compensation in Indiana
Advanced Worker's Compensation in Indiana
Worker's Compensation Hearings in Indiana: Techniques and Strategies

Tokio Marine: Worker's Compensation Revisions of the Bad Faith Law