About Stephanie Cassman
Stephanie L. Cassman is a Partner at Wagner Reese, LLP in Carmel, Indiana, with more than 20 years of experience as a trial advocate. She was named Indiana Defense Lawyer of the Year (2015) and has been recognized as a Top 50 Attorney and Top 25 Woman by Indiana Super Lawyers from 2016 through 2023. She is a Distinguished Fellow of the Indianapolis Bar Foundation.
Cassman earned her J.D. from the Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law in Indianapolis and her undergraduate degree from Indiana University, Bloomington. She is admitted to practice in Indiana state courts, the U.S. District Courts for the Southern and Northern Districts of Indiana, and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit.
She served as Chair of the Indianapolis Bar Association's Litigation Section in 2011 and as Vice President of the Board of Directors in 2015, and serves on the faculty of the Trial Advocacy Skills College. She is a frequent speaker and author on jury selection and trial advocacy.
Proven verdicts and settlements at Wagner Reese, LLP
These results are credited to Wagner Reese, LLP. A result appears under an attorney's own name only when a published source names them as counsel on the case.
A Richmond obstetrician ordered a contraction stress test instead of the recommended non-stress evaluation as a 34-week fetus showed distress, and a Wayne County jury held him responsible for the baby's death.
The mother of M. Shane Satterfield, 38, recovered $640,000 from Decatur County's liability insurer after he died of untreated alcohol withdrawal while serving a drunk-driving sentence at the county jail.
Roughly two dozen women sued after a Clark County jail officer sold cell keys to male detainees, and the county's insurer paid $328,000 to settle the federal suits that Wagner Reese helped bring.
Four former North Central High School students settled their federal suit against the Metropolitan School District of Washington Township for $245,000 after alleging the district ignored years of warnings about a drama teacher's grooming, with Wagner Reese's Jeff Gibson representing the plaintiffs.
Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.
