Jason M Massaro
The Massaro Legal Group, LLC
Jason M. Massaro is the owner of The Massaro Legal Group in Indianapolis, Indiana, where he focuses his practice primarily in complex business, commercial, contract, and real estate litigation. His experience ranges from counseling individuals as well as businesses of all sizes ranging from small to Fortune 500 companies in a variety of matters including litigation, contract issues, real estate matters, closely-held and minority shareholder disputes, Limited Liability Company (LLC) and partnership disputes, negotiations, corporate and partnership structuring, and corporate compliance. These litigations vary but often involve claims pertaining to trade secret violations, fraud, securities act violations, and fiduciary duty disputes.
Jason has been in practice for over 21 years and is consistently recognized for both his legal ability and ethics. He has earned an AV® Distinguished™ Peer Review Rating from Martindale-Hubbell®, is a Super Lawyer Top Rated Business Litigation Lawyer, is a Fellow in the Litigation Counsel of America, and is also listed as one of Indiana's Top Rated Lawyers.
Jason is also active in various Indiana bar associations currently acting as an Executive Committee Member of the Defense Trial Counsel of Indiana (DTCI) as well as a current Executive Committee Member for the Litigation Section of the Indiana State Bar Association (ISBA), the Business Law Section of the ISBA, and is the Secretary/Treasurer of the General Practice, Solo and Small Firm Section of the ISBA. Jason has also served as past Chair of the Litigation Section of the ISBA, past Chair of the Business Litigation Section of DTCI, past Chair of the Trial Tactics Section of DTCI, and a Master in the Indianapolis American Inn of Court.
Jason received his B.S, with distinction, in Economics from the Krannert School of Management at Purdue University and his J.D., magna cum laude, from Valparaiso University School of Law.
- Business Law
- Business Contracts, Business Dissolution, Business Finance, Business Formation, Business Litigation, Franchising, Mergers & Acquisitions, Partnership & Shareholder Disputes
- Business
- Litigation
- Real Estate
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Rates, Retainers and Additional Information
$275-$350 per hour
- Indiana
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- 7th Circuit
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- Federal Circuit
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- English
- Executive Committee Member, Business Law Section
- Indiana State Bar Association
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- Executive Committee Member
- Defense Trial Counsel of Indiana
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- Executive Committee Member, Litigation Section
- Indiana State Bar Association
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- Owner
- The Massaro Legal Group, LLC
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- At The Massaro Legal Group, Jason continues to develop his experience in the area of general civil litigation in both state and federal courts. Jason focuses his practice in the areas of complex business, contract, real estate, and commercial law and litigation. He is also extremely adept at corporate compliance and contract negotiation. Jason is dedicated to offering each of his clients unique, methodical, dynamic, innovative, and compelling advocacy. This advocacy is coupled with a broad spectrum of legal knowledge, common sense, compassion, and objective counsel. This legal acumen is always, however, intertwined with the goal of effective dispute resolution either prior to trial, through mediation, arbitration, or through litigation, if other options are not available.
- Master
- Indianapolis American Inn of Court
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- Chair, Litigation Section
- Indiana State Bar Association
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- The Litigation Section brings together attorneys who are primarily interested in trial work and the issues those in the practice of trial law encounter. It has been focusing its attention on these areas: investigation and improvement of the civility of lawyers; review of the Indiana rules of evidence; in conjunction with the ADR section, review and development of ADR goals and processes; helping attorneys more fully understand and improve discovery practices; and increasing the public's understanding of the legal profession and why lawyers do what they do, and the independence and impartiality of the judiciary.
- Chair, Business Litigation Section
- Defense Trial Counsel of Indiana
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- Chair, Trial Tactics Section
- Defense Trial Counsel of Indiana
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- Attorney
- Tabbert Hahn Earnest & Weddle LLP
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- At Tabbert Hahn Earnest & Weddle, Jason practiced in the area of general civil litigation in both state and federal courts and further grew his litigation practice and experience. Jason developed a great deal of accomplishment in federal court practice and the intricacies of that forum. There Jason started his niche practice with a focus on complex business, contract, commercial, construction, and real estate law and litigation as well as corporate compliance and contract negotiation. This niche grew into corporate law, partnership law, and Indiana's Uniform Commercial Code.
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- Singleton, Crist, Austgen & Sears LLP
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- After five (5) years of practice with Singleton Crist at the age of 28, the firm asked Jason to become an equity partner, which he accepted. During that time, Jason practiced extensively in the areas of insurance defense and insurance coverage. These cases covered a wide and varied array of legal subject matters and complexities. Jason was recognized as a very capable, honorable, ethical, and prepared attorney willing to go that extra mile for his clients. That respect for integrity, ethics, and dynamic ability has followed Jason throughout his state travels and changes in areas of legal focus.
- Valparaiso University School of Law
- J.D. (1996) | Juris Doctorate
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- Honors: Graduated Magna Cum Laude
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- Purdue University - Purdue University
- B.S. | Economics
- While at Purdue, Jason authored a thesis concerning regression analysis of the causes of homelessness in the nation's largest sixty (60) cities, which included Indianapolis. The thesis utilized economic theory, census data, and statistical methodology to determine a causal connection between several common factors existing in each city and the rate of homelessness therein.
- Honors: Honors Economics Program, Graduation with Distinction
- Activities: Triple minors in Military History, Psychology, and Spanish.
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- Top Rated Business Litigation Lawyer
- Indiana Super Lawyers
- Fellow
- Litigation Counsel of America
- Indiana's Top Rated Lawyers
- Indianapolis Monthly Magazine
- AV Distinguished Peer Review Rating
- Martindale-Hubbell
- Fellow
- Litigation Counsel of America
- Indiana State Bar Association
- Executive Committee Member, Litigation Section
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- Indianapolis Bar Association
- Attorney Member
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- Indiana State Bar Association
- Attorney Member
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- Defense Trial Counsel of Indiana
- Vice-Chair, Business Litigation Section
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- Indianapolis Amercian Inn of Court
- Barrister
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- Fishers, IN Rotary Club
- Member
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- Indianapolis American Inn of Court
- Master
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- Indiana State Bar Association
- Secretary/Treasurer, Litigation Section
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- Activities: As part of the Litigation Section, Jason brings together attorneys who are primarily interested in trial work and the issues those in the practice of trial law encounter. The section has been focusing its attention on these areas: investigation and improvement of the civility of lawyers; review of the Indiana rules of evidence; in conjunction with the ADR section, review and development of ADR goals and processes; helping attorneys more fully understand and improve discovery practices; and increasing the public's understanding of the legal profession and why lawyers do what they do, and the independence and impartiality of the judiciary.
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- Defense Trial Counsel of Indiana
- Chair, Trial Tactics Section
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- Activities: In Jason's capacity as Chairman, it is his honor, duty, and responsibility to ensure that the Section offers education, aid, and assistance to Indiana counsel to endow him/her with the knowledge to develop and grow their trial skills and proficiency as legal practitioners for the benefit of the clients they represent.
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- Indiana State Bar Association
- Litigation Section Council Member, At Large
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- Indianapolis American Inn of Court
- Associate
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- Activities: Jason has been nominated to a two (2) year term as an Associate to the Indianapolis American Inn of Court. The Indianapolis Inn of American Court is designed to improve the skills, professionalism, and ethics of the bench and bar. The American Inn of Court is an amalgam of judges, lawyers, and in some cases, law professors and law students. American Inns of Court help lawyers to become more effective advocates and counselors with a keener ethical awareness.
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- Indianapolis Bar Association Program, Ask A Lawyer Program
- Volunteer Attorney
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- American Bar Association
- Attorney Member
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