Mr. Thomas Harley Ristine, Attorney

Tom Ristine has handled a wide variety of transactional matters for general businesses, business in regulated industries, and nonprofit organizations. Especially regarding regulated industries he has led projects involving actions by state and local legislative bodies as well as state and local regulatory/administrative boards and committees, for the benefit of individual businesses or nonprofits as well as for industries through the representation of trade associations. He enjoys advocating to government on behalf of thriving businesses and nonprofits in need of legal infrastructures that enhance instead of impede their abilities to attain their goals, and he has especially enjoyed projects, both long-term and short-term, to reshape legislative, regulatory and governance structures to help clients. To Tom, the practice of law is about creating structure where there is little or none, helping clients seize opportunities, and solving legal problems big or small, all while managing risk.

Tom has been a frequent presenter at seminars for lawyers, most often produced by the Indiana Continuing Legal Education Forum, including presentations on financial institutions laws, commercial law (UCC Articles 3, 4 & 9) and liquor permits, as well as legal issues affecting in-house legal departments and nonprofits. He has made presentations at more than 15 annual conferences held by the American Bankers Association the ABA's State Association Counsel Conferences and served as chair of that conference in 1999. Also in the area of banking he has contributed numerous articles to the Indiana Bankers Association's Hoosier Banker magazine. Indianapolis Business Journal named him to its Who's Who in Banking.