Transportation

Taylor Freed is an attorney in the Kightlinger & Gray Indianapolis office. Her practice presently focuses on general civil litigation within the insurance defense industry, including auto, trucking and transportation, premises liability, underinsured motorists’ claims, and wrongful death. Additionally, Taylor has experience litigating professional liability matters, particularly claims arising out of alleged legal malpractice and violations of the Fair Debt Act. Further, she is well-versed in Dram Shop liability and subrogation claims. 

Samantha Mihail is an associate attorney at Kightlinger & Gray’s Merrillville, Indiana office. Her practice is focused on insurance defense, employment law, and appellate work.

Jeff Lowe is a partner at Kightlinger & Gray in New Albany, Indiana and Louisville, Kentucky. He is chair of the Employment and Civil Rights practice group. He regularly defends governmental entities and their employees throughout Southern Indiana and Kentucky. His practice focuses on defense of governmental entities and their employees on issues ranging from constitutional torts to zoning matters to employment issues, as well as state law claims made against his governmental clients.

Mike Wroblewski is an attorney in the Indianapolis office of Kightlinger & Gray, and serves as Chair of the firm’s Transportation Practice Group. He currently focuses his practice on defending individual and corporate clients in personal injury litigation. He routinely appears before State and Federal courts, and has been admitted to practice law in Indiana and Illinois. Mike has extensive jury and bench trial experience and has tried over 20 trials to verdict.  Mike is a member of various legal and professional organizations, including the Construction Lawyers Society of America (CLSA), and is an active member of the community.

Melissa Danielson is a general partner in the Indianapolis office of Kightlinger & Gray. After graduating from Harvard University and the University of Virginia School of Law, Melissa practiced law in California but subsequently returned to her native state of Indiana. Melissa has extensive litigation experience in a variety of substantive legal areas, including Trucking and Transportation, Premises Liability, and Municipal Government. She focuses her legal practice on defense of institutions and individuals in tort litigation and pre-litigation counseling. 

Matt is an associate attorney in Kightlinger & Gray’s Indianapolis office. Prior to joining the firm, Matt was a Deputy Attorney General in the Indiana office of the Attorney General’s Government Litigation section. In that role, Matt gained extensive federal and state court experience in a variety of areas representing state agencies and state employees including 42 U.S.C. § 1983 claims, small claims, habeas and post-conviction relief petitions, and petitions for removal from the Sex and Violent Offender registry. Matt also clerked in the Appeals section of the Attorney General’s office in law school, where he worked on civil and criminal appeals in state and federal courts.

Jonathan Halm is a partner in the Merrillville (Northwest Indiana) office of Kightlinger & Gray. He has more than 15 years of litigation experience in a variety of substantive legal areas. His practice focuses on insurance defense litigation inclusive of the following areas: premises liability, auto and transportation – both simple and catastrophic in damages, commercial litigation, professional liability, government and civil rights liability, construction and industrial accident liability, and insurance coverage

Todd Spurgeon is a litigator with significant trial experience. He routinely appears in State and Federal courts, handling a wide range of insurance defense matters. Todd is a member of the American Board of Trial Advocates, which is only open to those with significant jury trial experience and high personal character and reputation. Todd is a board member of the Defense Trial Counsel of Indiana, and is a past president of the Indiana State Bar Association.

Erin Clancy is a senior partner in Kightlinger & Gray’s Indianapolis office and is one of five members of our Management Committee. Prior to her work as a litigator at Kightlinger & Gray, Erin’s practice focused on real estate transactions. She brings that experience to her professional liability practice, including work with realtors, mortgage brokers, appraisers, inspectors, property owners associations, and closing agents as well as litigation involving land use and/or management, and title and boundary disputes. Erin majored in biology when receiving her undergraduate degree and regularly uses that knowledge when handling product liability-related matters, especially those cases pertaining to medical devices, as well as toxic and/or mass torts.

Bryce Zoeller is a senior partner in the Indianapolis office of Kightlinger & Gray. He has extensive trial experience in the state of Indiana, and has first chaired over 60 trials in the State and Federal courts of Indiana and Illinois.

Ashley Canan is an associate in our Indianapolis office and joined the firm in 2021. Ashley’s prior experience includes interning with Lake County Prosecutor’s Office in the felony division, CLEO internship program with the Court of Appeals of Indiana, family law with a prestigious firm in Chicago, and working on the other side of defense work with plaintiff’s personal injury firms in Indianapolis.