Business Law

Business Law

Clear Counsel for Complex Decisions.

Helping companies navigate contracts, compliance, and risk with confidence.

Overview

From formation through expansion, Kightlinger & Gray provides reliable legal counsel to privately held businesses, startups, and mid-market companies across Indiana and Kentucky. Our attorneys help protect your operations, your contracts, and your future.

We offer scalable business law support, combining preventive insight with responsive legal solutions that evolve as your business grows.

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Attorneys Practicing
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Meet the Kightlinger & Gray Business Law Group

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    William E. Smith Profile Pic
    William E. Smith, III

    Of Counsel

    William “Bill” Smith has been practicing law in Indiana for over 30 years and has handled a variety of issues. Bill’s current practice includes Bankruptcy matters, for the debtor and for corporations, Commercial Collections, and Business and Corporate transactions for small to medium size businesses. Bill also handles Civil Rights cases, Construction matters, Estate Planning and Probate Administration, Governmental Liability, and Zoning matters. Bill is an active member of ACA International, an association for credit and collection professionals.

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    Timothy J. Stucky Profile Pic
    Timothy J. Stucky

    Attorney

    Timothy Stucky serves as an Attorney at Kightlinger & Gray’s New Albany office, where his journey began as a Summer Law Clerk in 2020 before officially joining the firm as an Attorney in 2022. His extensive civil litigation practice covers a wide array of legal areas, including personal injury, premises liability, insurance subrogation, debt collection under the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act and Fair Credit Reporting Act, wrongful death, dram shop liability, employment disputes, and defending governmental entities and their employees.

     

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    Rachael A. McMillen Profile Pic
    Rachael A. McMillen

    Attorney

    Rachael McMillen is an attorney in the New Albany, Indiana Kightlinger & Gray office. Her current practice focuses on civil litigation primarily in the areas of transportation, civil rights and municipal liability, premises liability, commercial collections and business and corporate transactions for small to medium size businesses.

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    R. Jeffrey Lowe

    Senior Partner

    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.

  • John B. Drummy Senior Partner Profile Picture
    John B. Drummy Senior Partner Profile Picture
    John B. Drummy

    Senior Partner

    John Drummy is a Senior Partner in the Kightlinger & Gray Indianapolis office and a member of the firm’s Management Committee. John is also a member of the firm’s Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Board. John is a skilled attorney with over 30 years of experience handling Insurance Coverage and Bad Faith, Professional Liability, Appellate, Data Breach and Securities Litigation matters. John has handled hundreds of appeals, with nearly 100 published opinions.

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    Christopher R. Moon

    Attorney

    Christopher Moon is an associate attorney practicing in Kightlinger & Gray’s Indianapolis office. Being a born and bred Hoosier, Christopher attended the Kelley School of Business at Indiana University for his undergrad and stayed in Bloomington, IN to attend the Maurer School of Law.

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    Casey R. Stafford

    General Partner

    Casey Stafford is a General Partner in the Indianapolis office of Kightlinger & Gray. She focuses her practice on insurance defense matters, including Insurance Coverage and Bad Faith and Professional Liability, primarily focusing on the defense of insurance agents. Casey also handles Commercial Collections for small to medium size businesses. She is the Chair of the firm’s Coverage and Bad Faith practice group. She has mastered the art of early dispositive motions in Insurance Coverage matters and is a skilled trial lawyer.

Business Law Services

Business Law Services

Entity formation and corporate governance
Defense of product liability claims
Vendor, supplier, and client agreements
M&A due diligence and deal support
Employment policy and regulatory review
Commercial litigation support