Ron Waicukauski is a trial lawyer whose practice focuses on plaintiffs’ complex litigation, including matters involving business disputes, civil rights, property rights, professional malpractice, and DCS allegations of child abuse and neglect. He has tried more than eighty jury cases to verdict as lead counsel in both state and federal courts. He has been plaintiffs’ lead trial counsel in cases that resulted in class action verdicts of $79 million and $130 million, a civil rights verdict of $31 million, and other multi-million-dollar verdicts in antitrust and legal malpractice cases.

Ron has been recognized in Best Lawyers in America (2006–2025), Indiana Super Lawyers (2004–2025) and with an AV Rating from Martindale-Hubbell. Ron has also received the Indiana Lawyer Leadership in Law Distinguished Barrister Award.

Ron received his bachelor’s degree with distinction from Northwestern University, his J.D. degree from Harvard University where he was named Best Oralist in the Ames Moot Court Competition, and an LL.M. degree, with highest honors, from George Washington University. Ron has taught trial and appellate advocacy at the Indiana University Schools of Law in Bloomington and Indianapolis and has served on the faculties of the National Institute of Trial Advocacy and the Defense Counsel Trial Academy.

Ron has also served as President of the Indianapolis American Inn of Court, as Chair of the Continuing Legal Education Board of the International Association of Defense Counsel, and as Co-chair of the Training the Advocate Committee, Litigation Section, American Bar Association. He formerly was a JAG and Captain in the U.S. Marine Corps and served as the elected Prosecuting Attorney in Monroe County, Indiana.

Ron co-authored The Twelve Secrets of Persuasive Argument (2009 ABA), The Winning Argument (2001 ABA), Classical Rhetoric and the Modern Trial Lawyer, Litigation (Winter 2010); and Ethos and the Art of Argument, Litigation (Fall 1999). Ron also wrote Learning the Craft, Litigation (Spring 1998) and was the editor and a contributing author of Law and Amateur Sports (Ind. Univ. Press 1982). Since 2004, Ron has been a regular speaker to the Indianapolis Law Club on recent developments in Indiana law.