Academy Member Inducted 2020
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E. Davis Coots
255 E Carmel Drive
Carmel, IN 46032
Website: www.chwlaw.com
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- Practice Commenced: 1987
- Total Mediations (as of Sep 2022): 550
- Total Arbitrations (as of Sep 2022): 10
Practice Percentages
Biographical
E. Davis Coots is a founding member of Coots, Henke & Wheeler, establishing the firm in July 1978, with Steven H. Henke. Dave concentrates has law practice in the areas of civil litigation, business services, mediation, real estate, and planing and zoning.
Litigation
Dave's civil litigation and business practice enables him to assist clients in a wide array of litigation matters involving personal injury, business disputes, and high asset divorces. Dave also assists clients in the formation, organization, and managements of clients' businesses as well as business succession and estate planning.
Mediation
Since 1987, Dave has mediated over 500 cases ranging from business disputes, personal injury, condemnation, real estate disputes, divorce, estate disputes, real estate sale and partition, and consumer claims.
Case Experience
- Agricultural
- Automotive
- Aviation
- Banking & Finance
- Business Dissolution
- Commercial/Business
- Community Associations
- Condominiums
- Construction
- Contract Disputes
- Divorce (High Asset)
- Education
- Eminent Domain
- Employment
- Engineering
- Entertainment Sector
- Environmental
- Family Businesses
- Franchise
- Health Care
- Industrial
- Insurance
- Land Use/Planning
- Landlord/Tenant
- Legal Malpractice
- Lemon Law
- Libel & Slander
- Local Govt./Municipalities
- Media & Communications
- Medical Devices
- Medical Malpractice
- Mergers & Acquisitions
- Mortgage Foreclosure
- Natural Disasters
- Non-profit Organizations
- Nursing Homes
- Partnerships
- Personal Injury
- Pharmaceuticals
- Police
- Premises Liability
- Probate
- Product Liability
- Professional Fees
- Professional Liability
- Professional Malpractice
- Professional Negligence
- Property Damage
- Public Policy
- Railroad & Trucking
- Real Estate
- Religious Institutions
- Securities
- Sexual Harassment
- Shareholder Disputes
- Sports
- Technology
- Telecommunications
- Title Disputes
- Torts
- Transportation
- Trusts / Estates
- Unfair Competition
- Utilities
- Venture Capital
- Wage & Hour/FMLA
- Workers' Compensation
- Wrongful Death
Education
- Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law - Indianapolis (J.D., 1969)
- Monmouth College (B.S. Business and Finance, 1965)
Memberships & Affiliations
Bar & Admissions
- Indiana
- U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Indiana
- U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana
- U.S. District Court for the Seventh Circuit
- U.S. Supreme Court
- Indiana State Bar Association, Alternative Dispute Resolution Section Chair
Recognition
- AV® Peer Review rated by Martindale-Hubbell®, 1975-present
- Indiana Super Lawyers® (2008-present)
- Listed in The Best Lawyers in America® in Commercial Litigation, 2013-present
Rates Information
$300 per hour local, call for rates for out of county mediation