Ronald J. Waicukauski

Ron Waicukauski's practice focuses on plaintiffs’ complex litigation including matters involving business disputes, property rights, professional malpractice, and class actions.  He has tried more than seventy jury cases to verdict as lead counsel in both state and federal courts.  He has also argued numerous appellate cases in the Indiana Court of Appeals, the Indiana Supreme Court and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. Ron has an AV Rating from Martindale-Hubbell.  Ron was also selected for the Indiana Lawyer 2016 Leadership in Law Distinguished Barrister Award.

Ron formerly served as a JAG and Captain in the U.S. Marine Corps and as the elected Prosecuting Attorney in Monroe County, Indiana.  He has taught trial and appellate advocacy at the Indiana University Schools of Law in Bloomington and Indianapolis, and served on the faculty of the National Institute of Trial Advocacy and the Defense Counsel Trial Academy.

Since 2004 Ron has been a regular speaker to the Indianapolis Law Club on recent developments in Indiana law. In addition, Ron has made numerous CLE presentations at meetings of the American Bar Association, the Indiana State Bar Association and many other legal organizations.  

Ron co-authored The Twelve Secrets of Persuasive Argument (2009 ABA), The Winning Argument (2001 ABA),Classical Rhetoric and the Modern Trial Lawyer, Litigation (Winter 2010); and Ethos and the Art of Argument, Litigation (Fall 1999).  Ron also wrote Learning the Craft, Litigation (Spring 1998) and was the editor and a contributing author of Law and Amateur Sports (Ind. Univ. Press 1982).