... began in 1983 when Bob Benson decided to leave his ongoing practice to join with Ron James, Mark Pantello, and Jack Morris in a personal injury litigation firm serving Fort Wayne and the surrounding Northeast Indiana area. Tim Logan joined the firm and became the fifth partner in 1992.
Over the years,
the Firm has broadened the
range and scope
of its services and expertise.
Bob was born and raised in rural Rush County, Indiana. He attended Indiana University-Bloomington from 1962 to 1966 and graduated with a Bachelor of Science Degree from the School of Business in Management / Administration in 1966.
Mark is a Fort Wayne native and Bishop Dwenger High School alumnus (1972). In 1976 he received his Bachelor of Science degree in Business from Indiana University. First employed as an accountant/auditor with Arthur Anderson & Company he returned to Indiana University for his Juris Doctor degree which he received in 1980. He started his practice of law as an associate with the firm of Sowers and Benson, and then, since 1983, as a partner with Benson, Pantello, Morris, James & Logan.
Jack is another Fort Wayne native (Southside 1973). He obtained an Associate of Arts degree from Cumberland College in 1975 and a Bachelor of Science degree in 1977 from Ball State University. He went on to obtain a J.D. degree from Indiana University in 1980. He is an active or sustaining member of local, state and national professional trial organizations. He is and has been engaged in a variety of charitable and social organizations, including serving as President of the Downtown Optimist's Club, President of the Three Rivers Handball Club, Chairman of the Arlington Park Golf Committee, and Board of Trustees of the Leukemia Society of America.
Ron graduated from Columbia City Joint High School in 1972 and attended St. Joseph's College in Rensselaer, Indiana. He received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science, with minors in History and Sociology, from Indiana University, Bloomington, in 1976. He obtained a Juris Doctor degree from Indiana University School of Law in Bloomington in 1979, earning an American Jurisprudence Award for his study of Contracts.
Tim, also a Fort Wayne native, graduated from Bishop Luers High School in 1977. He attended Indiana University in Bloomington, where he majored in accounting and interned with Abbott Laboratory in North Chicago, Illinois. He received his Bachelor of Science in accounting in 1981. Tim graduated from the Indiana University School of Law in Indianapolis. In 1987 he returned to Fort Wayne and became the Firm's fifth partner in 1992. Tim's civil trial law practice is concentrated in the areas of family law, commercial litigation, and business associations.
John, a Fort Wayne native, graduated from Homestead High School in 1981. He attended Indiana University in Bloomington, where he majored in Political Science. John graduated from Ohio Northern University's School of Law. In 1990, John worked in the Allen County Prosecutor's Office for two (2) years. He then went to Indianapolis and worked in the Indiana Attorney General's Office in the Tort Litigation Section. In 1994, John returned to Fort Wayne and worked in private practice for six (6) years until he joined Benson, Pantello, Morris, James & Logan in 2000.