Donald R. Lundberg is a partner in the Indianapolis office of Barnes & Thornburg LLP, where he is a member of the firm's Litigation Department and serves as the firm's deputy general counsel.
Prior to joining Barnes & Thornburg, Mr. Lundberg was the longtime executive secretary of the Indiana Supreme Court Disciplinary Commission, a post he occupied since 1991. Prior to his work at the Indiana Supreme Court, Mr. Lundberg served for 15 years in a number of positions for the Legal Services Organization of Indiana, Inc., ultimately as director of litigation.
Mr. Lundberg represents judges, lawyers and other professionals in disciplinary and licensing matters, ethics issues, malpractice cases and other matters of professional responsibility. In his role for the Indiana Supreme Court, he has led the agency that investigates and prosecutes claims of Indiana attorney misconduct.
As deputy general counsel to the firm, Mr. Lundberg helps lead Barnes & Thornburg's internal professional responsibility initiatives.
Mr. Lundberg is a frequent speaker on professional responsibility and legal ethics issues. He also writes a monthly ethics column in the Indiana State Bar Association magazine. He is admitted to practice law in the state of Indiana and before the U.S. Supreme Court, the Indiana Supreme Court, the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals, and the U.S. District Courts for the Northern and Southern Districts of Indiana.
Mr. Lundberg earned his J.D. summa cum laude in 1976 from The Maurer School of Law at Indiana University - Bloomington, where he was elected to Order of the Coif and a recipient of the West Hornbook Award for top GPA for three consecutive years. In recent years, he served as an adjunct faculty member there and at Indiana University School of Law-Indianapolis. In 2006, he was selected as one of 25 Inaugural Fellows of the National Institute for Teaching Ethics and Professionalism.
Mr. Lundberg is a member of the American (Governing Council, Government and Public Sector Lawyers Division, 2003-2006), Indiana State (Board of Governors, 2005-07; General Chair, 2008 Annual Meeting), and Indianapolis (Board of Managers, 2005-06) Bar Associations; a Master of the Indianapolis American Inn of Court (President, 2008-10); a Distinguished Fellow of the Indianapolis Bar Foundation; and a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation. He is also a member and past-president (2007-08) of the National Organization of Bar Counsel, a member of the Editorial Board of the ABA/BNA Lawyers Manual on Professional Conduct, a Founder's Circle member of the ABA Center for Professional Responsibility, and an Honorary Member of the Wilkie Inn of Phi Delta Phi.
Publications
09/01/2010, Res Gestae - Mental State Under Rules of Professional Conduct
09/01/2010, Res Gestae - A Five-Year Retrospective
06/01/2010, Res Gestae - Some Thoughts on Lawyer Speech
05/01/2010, Res Gestae - Electronically Stored Information and Spoliation of Evidence
04/01/2010, Res Gestae - In-house Counsel and Unauthorized Practice of Law
02/01/2010, Res Gestae - Top 10 Professional Responsibility Stories of 2009
Events
12/5/2011, An Afternoon of CLE and Networking
10/28/2011, Practicing Law in Indiana: Ethics
10/01/2010, Practicing Law in Indiana: Ethics Update
05/21/2010, Attorney Presentation - Ethics Issues Related to Blogging, Social Media and Metadata