Mr. Jason L. Fulk, Attorney

Jason L. Fulk

Jason Fulk is an associate with Hoover Hull LLP. He practices primarily in the areas of motorsports law and commercial litigation. Jason appeared in Super Lawyers^® magazine in the listing of 2009 Indiana Rising Stars^®.

Relevant Experience

• Represents businesses, insurers and individuals in commercial civil disputes in federal and state courts, including those involving contract performance and interpretation issues and business torts, including breach of fiduciary duty, fraud, tortious interference and trade secret misappropriation.
• Represents closely-held companies and their officers, directors and shareholders in business disputes, shareholders’ litigation and officers and directors litigation.
• Represents motorsports teams, owners, drivers and sanctioning bodies commercial disputes, including those involving driver services agreements, sponsorship agreements, promoter agreements and other agreements utilized in the motorsports industry.
• Has represented professional drivers (including multiple Indianapolis 500 winners) in negotiations with teams regarding driver and sponsorship agreements, including agreements relating to the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series, IndyCar Series, Firestone Indy Lights Series and American LeMans Series.
• Has assisted minors to obtain partial emancipation for purposes of contracting to participate in professional racing events.

Education and Prior Work Experience

Jason attended the Indiana University Kelley School of Business - Bloomington, obtaining B.S. degrees with distinction in both Marketing and Computer Information Systems in 1998. Thereafter he was employed as a Management Consultant at PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, where he advised publicly-traded and start-up entities regarding information technology deployment and business process improvement.

Jason attended Indiana University Maurer School of Law - Bloomington, earning his J.D. in 2004. There Jason served as a Managing Editor of the Indiana Law Journal and received the Best Brief Award in 2002-03 Sherman Minton Moot Court Competition. He also served as a summer law clerk for the Honorable Magistrate Judge Tim A. Baker of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana (2002).

Publications and Speaking Engagements

Andrew W. Hull & Jason L. Fulk, Expert Witnesses in Commercial Litigation (originally presented on October 25, 2005 at a seminar entitled "Evidence & Discovery Issues in Business Litigation" sponsored by the Indiana Continuing Legal Education Forum) (authored with assistance from Michael K. Correll and Alice M. Morical).

Professional Associations, Memberships and Community Service

Jason is a member of the American, Seventh Circuit, Indiana State and Indianapolis Bar Associations. He is admitted to practice before all state and federal courts in Indiana, as well as before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit.

Jason serves on the Indiana State Bar Association's Federal Judiciary and American Citizenship Committees. He is also member of the Defense Trial Counsel of Indiana and a past member of the Sagamore American Inn of Court (matriculated 2007).

Jason is member of the Indiana Motorsports Association and the Sports Lawyers Association.

Jason also volunteers for the Indiana Sports Corporation, where he has served as a Vice Chair for the Local Organizing Committee for the 2008 U.S. Olympic Team Trials for Diving (2008). He has also been a past volunteer on the Local Organizing Committees for the AT&T USA Outdoor Track and Field Championships (2006, 2007).

Representative Cases

JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A. v. Desert Palace, Inc., No. 49A02-0707-CV-551, 882 N.E.2d 743 (Ind. Ct. App. March 19, 2008) (commercial litigation; holding that the trial court's exercise of personal jurisdiction over non-resident defendant casinos would not violate their constitutional due process rights).

Indiana Lumbermens Mut. Ins. Co. v. Reinsurance Results, Inc., No. 07-1823, 513 F.3d 652 (7th Cir. January 16, 2008) (commercial litigation; affirming summary judgment in favor of insurer; rejecting service provider's claim for compensation for work performed outside the scope of a service contract).

Overton v. Foutty & Foutty, LLP, No. 1:07CV0274 DFHTAB, 2007 WL 2413026 (S.D. Ind. August 21, 2007) (slip copy) (FDCPA/professional liability; granting defendant law firm's motion to dismiss plaintiffs' claim for compensation for emotional distress resulting from alleged negligence and FDCPA violations).

Henderson v. Biel, No. 1:05-CV-1485JDTTAB, 2007 WL 2286129 (S.D. Ind. August 07, 2007) (slip copy) (FDCPA/professional liability; granting summary judgment in favor of a debt collector who was entitled to the protection of the FDCPA's bona fide error defense).

Buck v. Grube, No. 49A02-0411-CV-957, 833 N.E.2d 110 (Ind. Ct. App. August 25, 2005) (real estate partition action; affirming the trial court's holding that the Indiana partition statutes permitted the trial court to unilaterally determine that a parcel could not be physically partitioned without substantial harm to the property owners).

The foregoing judicial opinions are provided only as exemplars of the legal experiences of Hoover Hull LLP and its attorneys, and do not represent the full range of experience of the firm. They should not be viewed or used as a substitute for specific legal advice. Each of these legal matters presented a unique set of facts, and none should be viewed as suggesting or predicting any outcome in any other legal matter, regardless of similarity.