Ronald J. "Ron" Waicukauski

Ron Waicukauski is a trial lawyer with Williams Law Group LLC in Indianapolis, Indiana. His practice concentrates on plaintiffs’ complex litigation, including Bet-the-Company Litigation and Commercial Litigation, as well as business disputes, civil rights matters, property rights cases, professional malpractice, and DCS allegations of child abuse and neglect. He has served as lead counsel in more than eighty jury trials to verdict in state and federal courts across Indiana and beyond.

Ron has acted as plaintiffs’ lead trial counsel in matters resulting in class action verdicts of $79 million and $130 million, a $31 million civil rights verdict, and other multi-million-dollar verdicts involving antitrust and legal malpractice claims. His work frequently involves high-stakes disputes where the outcome has significant financial and operational consequences for the parties involved.

Ron has been listed in Best Lawyers in America from 2006 through 2025, named to Indiana Super Lawyers from 2004 through 2025, and holds an AV Rating from Martindale-Hubbell. He is also a recipient of the Indiana Lawyer Leadership in Law Distinguished Barrister Award.

Ron earned his bachelor’s degree with distinction from Northwestern University, his Juris Doctor from Harvard University, where he was named Best Oralist in the Ames Moot Court Competition, and his LL.M., with highest honors, from George Washington University. He has taught trial and appellate advocacy at the Indiana University Maurer School of Law in Bloomington and the Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law in Indianapolis, and has served on the faculties of the National Institute of Trial Advocacy and the Defense Counsel Trial Academy.

In addition to his litigation practice, Ron has held numerous leadership and service roles within the legal profession. He served as President of the Indianapolis American Inn of Court, Chair of the Continuing Legal Education Board of the International Association of Defense Counsel, and Co-chair of the Training the Advocate Committee of the American Bar Association’s Litigation Section. Earlier in his career, he served as a JAG and Captain in the United States Marine Corps and as the elected Prosecuting Attorney for Monroe County, Indiana.

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