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Joseph Wendt
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T. Joseph Wendt

Partner

Indianapolis

11 S. Meridian Street
Indianapolis, IN 46204-3535

P 317-231-7748

F 317-231-7433

Joe Wendt is a Chambers-recognized trial lawyer and commercial litigator, representing clients in disputed business matters across the country.

OVERVIEW

Joe Wendt is a Chambers-recognized trial lawyer and commercial litigator, representing clients in disputed business matters across the country.

Joe handles complex matters for clients of all sizes, focusing on problem-solving. Sometimes the best solution is a trial, other times it is a negotiated resolution. Joe has the experience, judgment, and skill to drive the correct client result, in any setting.  

Among his successes, Joe recently obtained a defense jury verdict for a global engine manufacturer in $90 million contract dispute in the Southern District of New York, dismissal of a national class action in the Eastern District of Michigan alleging breach of warranty and violation of multiple states’ consumer protection laws, a favorable judgment in a two-week wrongful death bench trial in Washington state, and summary judgment in Cook County, Illinois, in a case alleging elder abuse. 

Joe has authored briefs to the U.S. Supreme Court and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit and has argued before the Indiana Supreme Court and Indiana Court of Appeals.

Honors

The Best Lawyers in America, 2024-2025

Indiana Super Lawyers, 2025

Chambers USA, 2023-2024

EXPERIENCE
  • Obtained judgment in favor of a global manufacturer on claims that it violated the False Claims Act through purchases from an allegedly sham, minority-owned entity.
  • Obtained arbitration award in favor of public utility, enforcing the terms of a wind power purchase agreement, in a dispute with over $100 million at issue.
  • Obtained judgment in favor of a global manufacturer on claims that it violated Puerto Rico's distributor protection laws.
  • Obtained judgment in favor of public utility on negligence claims, through enforcement of the liability limitation in the utility's filed and approved tariff.
  • Obtained summary judgment for corporate defendant on alleged minority shareholder's claims that the corporation was vicarious liable for the CEO's alleged breach of fiduciary duties.
  • Obtained judgment in favor of a subsidiary of the world's largest water company on two separate consumer class actions due the exclusive jurisdiction of the relevant regulatory agency.
  • Obtained judgment in favor of corporate defendant on purported shareholder's individual claims of fraud, constructive fraud, breach of fiduciary duty and usurpation of corporate opportunities.
  • Obtained summary judgment for gasoline refiner/supplier on claims that it violated an obligation to sell gasoline to is dealers at good faith prices.
  • Obtained summary judgment on claim that retail lessee violated covenants of good faith, continuous operation and to generate percentage rent when it vacated leased facility.
  • Obtained arbitration award in favor of world's largest water company for breach of agreement to operate a municipal water utility.
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