About Emily Chimenti

Emily (VanTyle) Chimenti is an attorney at Wilson Kehoe Winingham Injury Lawyers in Indianapolis, Indiana, where she handles personal injury and medical malpractice matters. She has authored 11 articles on topics including car accidents, anesthesia malpractice, product liability, and tort law.

Chimenti was named to The Indiana Lawyer's Leadership in the Law: Up and Coming Lawyer (2023), received the IndyBar Young Lawyers Division Distinguished Leadership Award in 2022 and 2023, and has been an Indiana Super Lawyers Rising Star honoree since 2023. While at Butler University, she received the Butler Peacemaker Award (2013).

She earned her J.D. magna cum laude from Valparaiso University School of Law in 2016 and her B.A. with Honors from Butler University in 2013, with a triple major in Political Science, Spanish, and Peace & Conflict Studies. She speaks Spanish.

Chimenti is a member of the Indiana State Bar Association, the Indiana Trial Lawyers Association, and serves on the Executive Board of the Indianapolis Bar Association's Women in the Law Division.

Proven verdicts and settlements at Wilson Kehoe Winingham Injury Lawyers Indianapolis

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$121,770Verdict

A Marion County jury found Indianapolis landlords 85 percent at fault for a tenant's fall down a rental staircase that had no code-required handrail, awarding her $121,770 for permanent ankle and nerve damage.

Marion Superior Court, Indianapolis, IN · 2010Slip & FallRead the full story →

Wilson Kehoe Winingham represents donor children of Indianapolis fertility doctor Donald Cline, who secretly inseminated patients with his own sperm; related civil cases settled for about $1.35 million, and in 2025 the firm won an appeal reviving a client's claim that a trial court had dismissed as untimely.

Marion Superior Court / Indiana Court of Appeals, Indianapolis, IN · 2025Medical MalpracticeRead the full story →
Settlement

Bill Winingham of Wilson Kehoe Winingham filed a 2016 federal class action for a former Wake Forest fullback, one of a wave of head-injury suits against the NCAA and the Atlantic Coast Conference.

2016Class ActionsRead the full story →

Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.

Practice areas

Education

Valparaiso University School of Law
B.A. with Honors (Political Science, Spanish, Peace & Conflict Studies); J.D. magna cum laude, 2016
Butler University
Undergraduate, 2013

Bar admissions & credentials

State Bar of Indiana, admitted 2016
Indiana State Bar Association
Indiana Trial Lawyers Association
Indianapolis Bar Association, Women in the Law Division (Executive Board)

Awards & recognition

Indiana Lawyer Leadership in the Law: Up and Coming Lawyer (2023)
IndyBar Young Lawyers Division Distinguished Leadership Award (2022, 2023)
Indiana Super Lawyers Rising Star (since 2023)
Butler Peacemaker Award (2013)
J.D. magna cum laude (Valparaiso, 2016)

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Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.