Indianapolis has long been dominated by three homegrown law firms: Baker & Daniels, Barnes & Thornburg and Ice Miller. Now newcomers to the city are making plays to knock them from the podium.

During the past two years, a flurry of mergers have changed legal business in the city. As the dust settles, regional firms such as Benesch, Friedlander, Coplan & Aronoff; Frost Brown Todd; and Taft, Stettinius & Hollister are forcing Indianapolis’ Big Three to get creative. The interlopers areOhio-based firms that gained footholds in Indianapolis by acquiring smaller firms — Benesch, the 30-lawyer real estate firm Dann Pecar Newman & Kleiman; Frost, the 79-lawyer litigation boutique Locke Reynolds; and Taft, the 100-lawyer full-service firm Sommer Barnard.

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