Litigation success, industry-leading client service 

Lucy Dollens concentrates on complex commercial litigation, representing both large and small business clients. She works with clients in the manufacturing, medical device, higher education, financial services, technology and real estate industries, among others. Lucy advises on:

• Contract and corporate disputes and business torts
• Warranty and supply chain issues
• Trade secret and restrictive covenant claims
• Commercial real estate disputes
• Premises liability issues
• Appellate matters
• TCPA, FCRA, FDCPA, and other state deceptive and unfair trade practice claims

Nationally recognized for client service, she makes clients’ business objectives and risk tolerance levels a meaningful part of the legal strategies she delivers. Lucy establishes trusted, working relationships not only with her clients within corporate legal departments but also with individuals on her clients’ senior leadership teams and in their business departments. This enables her to proactively support clients in assessing and managing risk and in achieving creative business solutions to their issues. A skilled litigator, Lucy partners with her clients when litigation ensues to ensure their interests are vigorously protected and advanced.

Bar Admissions

• Indiana
• West Virginia

Education

• Butler University (B.A., cum laude, 1998)
  • Top Ten Female Student (1997, 1998)

• Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law (J.D., summa cum laude, 2002)
  • Indiana Law Review (Note Development Editor)

• Northwestern University, Kellogg School of Management, Certificate, Quarles & Brady Leadership Program (2016)

• "2015 Year in Review – Recent Midwest Legal Decisions Impacting Real Estate and Construction Law"
• "2016 Year in Review: Recent Midwest Legal Decisions Impacting Real Estate and Construction Law"
• "Amicus Update"
• "Appellate Practice"
• "Construction Law Update (Wolters Kluwer 2016)"
• "Construction Law Update"
• "DTCI: 2017 Amicus Activity — A look back at key cases"
• "Embracing the Urgency: TROs & Preliminary Injunctions"
• "Excellent Lawyers are Civil"
• "Indiana Corporate Counsel - Current Issues and Trends Facing Compliance and Regulatory Officers"
• "Indiana Corporate Counsel - Professional Networking in the Social Media Age and Ethics Roundtable"
• "Indiana Corporate Counsel Compensation and Ethics Seminar"
• "Indiana Corporate Counsel Economic Development and IP Seminar"
• "Innovation and Insights: Corporate Counsel to Corporate Counsel"
• "Legal Protections for Business"
• "Managing Global Risk: Data Privacy and Security"
• "Structuring Your Way to Success"
• "The Appellate Process & Use of Appellate Lawyers in Litigation and Trial"
• "Transitional Roles and Current Trends"
• "What if Donald Sterling Were an Indiana Lawyer: Ethical Considerations of Bias and Discrimination in the Practice of Law"
• "With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility: Current Ethical Challenges"
• "Women in Law Breakfast"
• #IMHO: Spend Time With Your Girlfriends During Mental Health Awareness Month
• 2000 Survey of Indiana Contract Law
• 2018 DTCI Amicus Activity: Summary of key cases
• Appellate Skills Institute
• DTCI Amicus Corner: Kovach v. Caligor Midwest Indiana Civil Litigation Review
• DTCI: 2019 amicus activity — summary of key cases
• Indiana Appellate Practice Manual
• Indiana Supreme Court Ruling Impacts Calculation of Jury Awards in Personal Injury Suits
• Indiana Supreme Court: No Duty to Protect Against Certain Criminal Acts
• Law Review Note
• Lucy Dollens Writes for Indiana Lawyer on Defense Trial Counsel of Indiana’s 2023 Amicus Activity
• Women's History Month
• ​“Navigating the Scope of the CFPB's UDAAP Authority, and Preventing and Defending Against Potential UDAAP Violations and Litigation"
• “A Focus on UDAAP and Residential Mortgages: Counseling Your Clients on the Areas With the Greatest Potential for Unfair or Deceptive Acts or Practices”
• “Appellate Civil Case Law Update”
• “Comparison of Consumer Fraud Statutes Across the Fifty States”
• “Debt Collection and Credit Reporting Litigation”
• “DTCI Amicus Corner: Speedway SuperAmerica LLC v. Holmes”
• “Effective Defense Strategies for New and Emerging Claims Arising Under the TCPA, FDCPA, and FCRA”
• “Expanded Use of UDAAP Provisions: Enforcement and Examination by the CFPB and State AGs, Recent Federal and State Cases, and More”
• “How to Create and Protect Your Good Record for Appeal, and What to Consider Before Bringing an Appeal”
• “Indiana Corporate Counsel Compensation and Ethics Seminar”
• “It Takes a Village: Allies, Alliances, & DEI in Action”
• “Make it Rain! Inside Tips for Transitioning from Associate to Rainmaker"
• “Mentoring (Including Generational Issues)”
• “MERS: A Primer”
• “Mortgage and foreclosure Litigation: Defending Against TILA and RESPA Claims, Litigating Claims Arising From Foreclosure and Loan Modification Practices, and Defeating Foreclosure Defenses”
• “No Warning . . . So What? The Indiana Supreme Court’s Ruling In Kovach v. Caligor Midwest and Proximate Cause Given the Read-And-Heed Presumption in Failure-To-Warn Cases”
• “The Art of Disagreement and Dissent - Collegiality”
• “The Coming Wave of Director and Officer Lawsuits: Navigating the Deluge of FOIC Enforcement, Dodd Frank and Borrower Lawsuits”
• “Top Ten Practice Tips for Young Lawyers”
• “Walmart v. Dukes: Requiring an Inquiry Into the Merits and Significant Proof for Class Certification”

Seminar

• 2015 Annual Legal Ethics Seminar
• 2015 Year in Review: Recent Midwest Legal Decisions Impacting Real Estate and Construction Law
• 2016 Year in Review: Recent Midwest Legal Decisions Impacting Real Estate and Construction Law
• 2021 Annual Legal Ethics Seminar
• 2021 Annual Legal Ethics Seminar Video Replay
• 2021 Annual Legal Ethics Seminar Video Replay #1
• 2021 Annual Legal Ethics Seminar Video Replay #2
• ACC Indiana Roundtable, Bourbon Tasting, and Hockey Game
• ACC Indiana Virtual CLE and Networking Event
• Becoming and Excelling as a General Counsel
• Corporate Counsel Roundtable with Networking Lunch
• General Counsel Virtual Roundtable Co-hosted by Major, Lindsey & Africa and Quarles & Brady LLP
• Indiana Corporate Counsel Compensation & Ethics Seminar
• Indiana Corporate Counsel Compensation and Ethics Seminar
• Indiana Corporate Counsel Economic Development and IP Roundtable
• Indiana Corporate Counsel Roundtable: Current Issues and Trends Facing Compliance and Regulatory Officers
• Indiana Corporate Counsel: Professional Networking in the Social Media Age and Ethics Roundtable
• Indiana General Counsel/Chief Legal Officer Trends & Ethics Seminar
• Indiana General Counsel/Chief Legal Officer Trends & Ethics Seminar and Lunch
• Indy Fuel Game to benefit the Quarles Climbers Fight for Air Stair Climb team
• Networking Lunch and Corporate Counsel Game Show Style Competition with ACC Indiana
• Networking Lunch and Corporate Counsel Roundtable with ACC Indiana
• Video Replay - 2015 Annual Legal Ethics Seminar
• Video Replay - 2015 Annual Legal Ethics Seminar
• Video Replay - 2015 Annual Legal Ethics Seminar