Erin L. Connell

Attorney Erin L. Connell is a top-rated attorney with more than 13 years of legal experience and co-founding and managing partner of Connell Michael Kerr, LLP. Ms. Connell devotes her practice primarily to family law, and she provides exceptional counsel and support to clients throughout the greater Indianapolis metro and surrounding areas who are going through divorces or have other serious legal issues affecting their families.

Although she represents clients from all walks of life, Ms. Connell is a veteran of the United States Air Force and she routinely works with service members and their families in their divorce and family law situations. As a former Captain in the United States Air Force, she fully understands the unique and specialized needs military families have and she is able to more readily connect with them and assist them through their struggles while devising effective solutions and strategies to help them achieve their goals.

As further evidence of her versatility as an attorney, along with her extensive trial experience, Ms. Connell is also trained in mediation and collaborative law to be able to provide a variety of options to her clients. Whether inside or outside the courtroom, Ms. Connell remains completely devoted to protecting her clients' rights and best interests at all turns, and she has gained a reputation for compassion and integrity as well as her aggressive approach when necessary at helping her clients achieve the positive results that they expect and deserve as efficiently and cost-effectively as possible.

From her efforts, Ms. Connell has earned consistent top rankings and endorsements from her peers, including five-star peer reviews on Martindale-Hubbell and being selected as an Indiana "Super Lawyer" for multiple years. She has also received numerous testimonials and referrals from her satisfied clients, and she finds great reward in being able to help so many in her area during some of the most difficult and uncertain times of their lives.

A 1998 graduate of the Indiana University's Kelley School of Business, Ms. Connell obtained her bachelor's degree in Business Administration with a minor in Aerospace Studies. After graduation, Ms. Connell was commissioned an officer in the United States Air Force and obtained her Master's Degree of Public Administration from Troy State University in 2000. Upon deciding to pursue her legal career, she obtained her Juris Doctorate from Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law in 2007. She is admitted to practice and has practiced before most Indiana state courts as well as before the U.S. District Court for the Southern and Northern Districts of Indiana.

Along with handling all aspects of family law, Ms. Connell also has extensive experience handling other civil and criminal litigation matters. More specifically, Ms. Connell has assisted clients and families in medical malpractice and wrongful death claims and also handled cases involving products liability, commercial litigation and other tortious claims for her clients.