Lance Cline
Partner | The Cline Law Firm
Lance Cline is a personal injury, medical malpractice and car accidents trial lawyer and partner at The Cline Law Firm in Carmel, Indiana. Admitted in Indiana; J.D., Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law (1980).
Meet Lance
Lance D. Cline is a Carmel, Indiana, personal injury attorney and partner at The Cline Law Firm. He represents people injured by health care malpractice, motor vehicle collisions and defective consumer products, and families who have lost a member to wrongful death.
Cline graduated from the Indiana University McKinney School of Law in Indianapolis in 1980 and was admitted to practice in Indiana that year. He has practiced plaintiff personal injury law exclusively for 45 years. He founded The Cline Law Firm in 2020, where he practices with Lindsay Popejoy and Spencer Hatfield.
He is a member of the Inner Circle of Advocates and the American College of Trial Lawyers. He has been named an Indiana Super Lawyer every year since 2004, was listed among the Top 10 lawyers in Indiana from 2018 through 2022, and has been recognized by Best Lawyers in America for personal injury law and medical malpractice law every year since 1997. The Indiana Trial Lawyers Association named him Trial Lawyer of the Year in 2018.
Experience and Expertise
Qualifications
Timeline
- Indiana University Bloomington, B.A. in History, highest distinction
- Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law, J.D., cum laude (1980)
- Admitted to the Indiana Bar (1980)
Practice Areas
- Inner Circle of Advocates
- American College of Trial Lawyers
- Best Lawyers in America, Personal Injury Law and Medical Malpractice Law (every year since 1997)
- Best Lawyers Indianapolis Medical Malpractice Lawyer of the Year (2011-2012, 2013-2014, 2014-2015)
- Best Lawyers Indianapolis Personal Injury Lawyer of the Year (2019, 2025)
- Indiana Super Lawyers (every year since 2004)
- Indiana Super Lawyers Top 10 (2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022)
- Indiana Super Lawyers Top 50 (18 times)
- Trial Lawyer of the Year, Indiana Trial Lawyers Association (2018)
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