As founder and managing attorney at Paganelli Law Group, a mid-sized law firm with offices in Indianapolis and Bloomington, Tony Paganelli is responsible for the firm’s business operations. As a seasoned trial lawyer with almost 30 years of experience, he also practices in the areas of business litigation, mediation, and business law, and he frequently advises corporate officers, senior executives, and professionals on employment law matters.Born and raised in Northwest Indiana, Tony was the first person in his family to go to college. He is a 1992 graduate of the University of Notre Dame. He then attended the Indiana University School of Law in Bloomington on scholarship, where he served as a Managing Editor of the Indiana Law Journal and graduated with honors in 1995.Before founding PLG in 2013, Tony was a litigation partner at one of the largest law firms in the United States. He focused his practice on business litigation and developed a nationwide trial and injunction practice.Tony was on the Indiana Rising Stars list (the top 2.5% of Indiana lawyers under 40) in 2009-2010, and has been recognized by Indiana SuperLawyers® (the top 5% of all Indiana lawyers) every year since 2010. He has also been included in every edition of The Best Lawyers in America© since 2013, most recently recognized for both business litigation and mediation.Tony is serving this third term as chairman of the board of directors of the Children’s Organ Transplant Association, a national charity that raises millions of dollars each year for children who need life-saving organ transplants. Tony is also a member of the board of directors of the Indiana Continuing Legal Education Forum (ICLEF), a nonprofit organization dedicated to providing the highest quality educational materials and seminars to lawyers across the state of Indiana. He has been an instructor since 2007 and co-chair since 2015 of the annual Indiana Trial Advocacy Skills College. In 2012 he was chairman of the Litigation Section of the Indianapolis Bar Association.