Longtime CCHA Law attorney Mike Antrim receives IU McKinney School of Law Distinguished Alumni Award

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Church Church Hittle and Antrim (CCHA Law) attorney J. Michael “Mike” Antrim has received the Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law Distinguished Alumni Award, which honors graduates whose achievements and service bring distinction to the law school and the legal profession. He was recognized at the law school’s awards celebration held on Nov. 1 at the Eiteljorg Museum in Indianapolis.

Antrim joined CCHA Law in 1975 and became a partner in 1977. Over five decades, he represented individuals and families in personal injury and complex civil litigation and became one of Indiana’s leading traumatic brain injury attorneys, writing and speaking widely on the subject. He holds Martindale-Hubbell’s AV Preeminent rating and was named an Indiana Super Lawyer from 2004 to 2021.

“Mike has consistently demonstrated that lawyers can be both zealous advocates and respectful professionals,” said retired Indiana Supreme Court Justice Steven H. David, Of Counsel at CCHA Law and the 2024 Distinguished Alumni Award recipient.

Antrim is also known as a mentor. He championed CCHA Law’s Sports Law Practice Group when it was only an idea and mentored its co-founder and leader, Kelleigh Fagan. The practice now has more than 10 professionals and ranks among the nation’s premier sports law practices.

“His willingness to invest in both people and ideas proved transformative,” said Julie Roe Lach, Executive Vice President of External Relations and Community Engagement for Pacers Sports & Entertainment.

A member of the IU McKinney Board of Visitors, Antrim helped develop the law school’s Sports Law Clinic and leads CCHA Law’s annual alumni giving campaign, which consistently reaches 100 percent participation. He is a past president of the Hamilton County Bar Association and the Indianapolis Law Club and past chairman of the Brain Injury Association of Indiana.

“I was surprised and humbled to receive such an extraordinary award,” Antrim said. “It was a real honor and pleasure to share this with my family and my CCHA colleagues, many of whom took the time to attend the awards ceremony with me. It has been a privilege to practice law in this great community with this wonderful group of people, and I will be forever grateful to and appreciative of IU McKinney School of Law for making such an opportunity possible.”

Antrim earned his bachelor’s degree from the IU Kelley School of Business and his J.D., cum laude, from IU School of Law, Indianapolis, where he was an editor of the Indiana Law Review.