Schwab, William G.

Mary A. Schopper, is a partner with Due Doyle Fanning in Indianapolis. Mary has concentrated her practice on worker's compensation and occupational diseases defense since 1991.

Mary graduated from the Indiana University School of Law, Indianapolis, cum laude, in 1991. She received her B.A. in Political Science from Indiana University, Bloomington in 1983, where she was selected as an undergraduate teaching assistant, as well as a Congressional intern. She is admitted to practice before the Worker's Compensation Board of Indiana, as well as the Indiana Court of Appeals and the Indiana Supreme Court.

Mary has frequently presented educational programs to legal and worker's compensation professionals regarding case law updates, implementing return to work programs, nuts and bolts claims handling, undocumented workers, affirmative defenses, medical causation issues, psychological injuries, and the statute of limitations.

Publications & Lectures Include:

• “Modified Duty Return to Work Issues” Council on Education In Management, 1999
• “Are Illegal Aliens Entitled to Benefits Under The Worker’s Compensation Act of Indiana?”, Indiana Lawyer 2003
• “Litigating Medical Expenses”  Indiana Continuing Legal Education Forum 2007
• “Are Illegal Aliens Entitled to Benefits Under the Worker’s Compensation Act of Indiana?”, Indiana Trial Lawyers Association 2008
• “Medical Causation and Liability”  Indiana Continuing Legal Education Forum 2009

Mary is a member of the Indiana State and Indianapolis Bar Associations. She is an active member of the Defense Trial Counsel of Indiana Worker's Compensation Section and the Indiana Worker's Compensation Institute.

Mary is active in her community, schools and church, volunteering as a Liturgical Minister, Parish and school committee chairs, Indiana State Bar Association We the People student tutor and competition judge, Salvation Army annual telethon, Cathedral Soup Kitchen, and Muscular Dystrophy Lock Up.