Betz + Blevins

Focus and practice areas

The firm handles employment and litigation work from a base in Indianapolis, Indiana. Its clients are individuals who run into trouble at work. The named practice areas cover employment litigation, the negotiation of employment and severance agreements, professional licensing and discipline, and individual and civil rights.

Much of the day-to-day work involves workplace discrimination and civil rights. The firm says it advocates for individuals throughout Indiana. In my opinion, that steady client focus is the clearest signal on the site: the lawyers here spend their days on the worker's side of the employment relationship.

Reading the practice areas

Employment litigation is the anchor of the list. For individuals, that means disputes about how they were treated on the job, including claims of discrimination, harassment, retaliation, and wrongful termination. The firm takes these cases for the employee, the person who says the workplace got something wrong.

The agreement work is a separate strand. The firm reviews and negotiates employment and severance agreements, which tends to matter most when someone is offered a new role or is leaving one. The terms set at that point can shape what a worker keeps and what a worker gives up.

Two further areas round out the list. Professional licensing and discipline covers people whose right to practice a profession is questioned before a state board. Individual and civil rights carries the same client focus beyond the workplace, into questions about how a person has been treated under the law.

The attorney who leads it

Sandra L. Blevins is the managing partner, a role she took in 2020. Her legal focus covers employment law, civil rights, and general litigation. She has reviewed hundreds of employment-related and severance agreements over her career.

That agreement work involves counseling clients about their rights and negotiating terms on their behalf. Blevins earned her J.D. from Indiana University School of Law in 1996 and a B.A. from Ohio State University in 1986. She was admitted to the Indiana bar in 1996, the same year she finished law school.

One detail catches my attention as a reviewer. Blevins spent the first seven years of her career representing companies. She now works for individuals, and that early stretch on the employer side gives her a close read on how the other party tends to think about a dispute.

How the wider team is built

Blevins does not work alone. The site names several other lawyers, and their backgrounds point in the same direction: a firm built around employment and civil rights, with a mix of partners and an associate.

Jamie A. Maddox is a partner. She represents clients in employment matters that include wrongful termination, workplace discrimination, sexual harassment, and severance negotiations. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in Social and Behavioral Science from Indiana University Kokomo and a Juris Doctor from the Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law.

Courtney E. Endwright is an associate. She joined the firm in November 2012, straight out of law school. Her practice covers employment and labor matters such as discrimination, harassment, and retaliation claims. She earned a J.D. from the Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law and a B.A. in History from the University of Notre Dame.

Other names on the site

The site also lists Elizabeth A. Mallov and Harley B. Schmitt among the attorneys. Kevin W. Betz is listed as retired. Betz is an employment and labor lawyer whose work covered employment, labor, and litigation matters. He holds a B.A. from Indiana University earned in 1982, a master's from Northwestern University earned in 1984, and a J.D. from Indiana University School of Law earned in 1988.

Experience across the team

The biographies span a range of career stages. Kevin W. Betz earned his law degree in 1988 and has since retired. Sandra L. Blevins was admitted to the bar in 1996 and now runs the firm. Courtney E. Endwright joined in 2012, near the start of her own career.

The named partners, Blevins and Maddox, handle much of the litigation and negotiation work described on the site. Endwright supports the same employment and labor caseload as an associate. Together they make a small team pointed at one field of law.

Where the focus sits

Read together, the attorney biographies share one throughline. Employment law and civil rights appear in nearly every profile the firm publishes. Discrimination, harassment, retaliation, and severance are the subjects that come up again and again.

The educational background is largely local. Most of the named lawyers earned law degrees from Indiana University, and two of them attended its Robert H. McKinney School of Law in Indianapolis. In my opinion, that shared grounding fits a firm that says it works for people across the state.

What the site shows is a group of lawyers focused on employment and civil rights matters for individuals in Indiana. The names carry the firm: Sandra L. Blevins has led it as managing partner since 2020, and Kevin W. Betz, the other name on the door, is now retired.