Attorney Profile

Indiana is full of every day people working hard and trying to make a life. Yet, despite good efforts, hundreds are fired from their jobs because of discrimination and harassment. Thousands are wrongly accused of crimes that result in arrests and prosecutions. The stakes are high when you've lost your job, your reputation, or your liberty.

If you've lost your job, experienced work place discrimination and harassment or been arrested, you cannot settle for an inexperienced attorney. You owe
it to yourself and your loved ones to seek a lawyer with experience in employment law when you've been terminated or criminal law when you've been arrested. You owe it to yourself to find an attorney who is passionate, prepared, and fearless in protecting your rights, reputation and freedom.

Introducing Kathleen M. Sweeney-

A graduate of Indiana University School of Law, Bloomington, and Saint Mary's College, Notre Dame, Kathleen M. Sweeney is an employment law attorney and criminal defense attorney who has represented the people in courtrooms throughout Indiana for over 20 years. She is known as an aggressive advocate who is known for her preparation and her willingness to take on the tough case despite the odds.

Ms. Sweeney has chosen to represent only individuals in employment cases and to defend, not prosecute, in criminal cases. She is in the minority of lawyers who has achieved success both as a trial lawyer and as an appellate lawyer.

Central to Ms. Sweeney's philosophy of representation is contact with her clients. Each client has 24 hour access to her through email and voicemail. She is a lawyer who welcomes her client's input into the legal strategy which may well affect the client for the rest of his or her life.

Kathleen sees every client as a partner in negotiating the legal maze. She passionately protects each client's rights. Because she has chosen to represent the underdog, she is acutely aware of the responsibility and she takes it seriously.

Experience Counts

Employment and Whistle Blower Law

In the employment law arena, Ms. Sweeney has successfully represented clients who were victimized and or terminated because of race and age discrimination, disability discrimination, sex harassment and whistle blowing. She successfully represented a former Secret Service Agent before the Federal Circuit. She was successful in reversing the MSPB decision that dismissed her client's whistle blower claim.

Ms. Sweeney recently negotiated a six figure severance package for a female executive who had been sexually harassed by management during her employment with a Fortune 500 company. Currently, Ms. Sweeney is co-counsel in a class action suit representing employees in claim for unpaid overtime.

Criminal Law

Ms. Sweeney has represented clients charged with a gamut of crimes from RICO and bank fraud to murder in both state and federal courts. In recent years, she has obtained acquittals and dismissals for clients charged with murder, robbery and child molesting as class A felonies.

She has also been successful in appealing cases that resulted in the Indiana courts finding laws unconstitutional as well as outright reversals based upon unlawful search and seizures. Recently she was successful in obtaining the return of a client's truck and money that had been seized when he was federally indicted in a multistate drug conspiracy. Out of 10 defendants, her client was the only person released after arrest and who was returned any seized property.

Her experience can be an asset to anyone charged with or appealing convictions for:

WHITE COLLAR CRIME:

    * Accounting Fraud
    * Bank/Bankruptcy Fraud
    * Computer/Internet Crimes
    * Conspiracy Crimes
    * Corporate Fraud
    * Drug/Narcotics
    * Receipt of Grand Jury Subpoenas
    * RICO 

VIOLENT CRIMES:

    * Arson
    * Assault with a Deadly Weapon
    * Attempted Murder
    * Child Molestation
    * Computer/Internet Offenses
    * Controlled Substance Abuse
    * Crimes by Public Officials
    * Domestic Violence
    * Drug Cultivation and Possession for Sale
    * Firearms Violations
    * Fraud
    * Rape
    * Theft
    * Kidnapping
    * Residential and Commercial Burglary
    * Robbery
    * Sodomy
    * Vehicular Manslaughter (DUI)
    * Weapons-Related Crimes

Today, Ms. Sweeney maintains active memberships with the following organizations:

    * Indianapolis and Indiana Bar Association
    * Indiana Public Defender's Council
    * National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers
    * National Employment Lawyers Association
    * Taxpayers Against Fraud
(whistle blower advocacy)

Flexible Appointments Major Credit Cards Accepted