Rick Pitts is vice president and general counsel for Arlington/Roe & Co., a leading Midwest managing general agent and wholesale insurance broker with a premium volume that exceeded $140 million in 2012. Rick also serves as general counsel to the Independent Insurance Agents of Indiana, Inc. As counsel to the “Big I,” Rick speaks annually at the association’s New Laws seminars and teaches various seminars on insurance and employment related matters. Pitts has also presented continuing education seminars to insurance professionals nationally and in Illinois, Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio and Tennessee.

Rick is a 1983 graduate of Wabash College and a 1986 graduate of Indiana University School of Law – Indianapolis. Pitts clerked for the Honorable Patrick D. Sullivan, a judge of the Indiana Court of Appeals in 1986-87. Rick is admitted to practice before Indiana state and federal courts, the United States Supreme Court and the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit and is a member of local, state and national bar associations. Pitts has tried cases and participated in over seventy appeals.

Pitts has served as panelist and lecturer on subjects including the Americans with Disabilities Act; “Mold: Issues under the Microscope” for the Indiana Continuing Legal Education Forum (ICLEF); and “Insurance Issues for Builders” for the Indiana Builders Association. He served as chair of several of ICLEF’s seminars including “Advanced Corporate Practice,” “Privacy Law” and “Insurance Coverage Issues.” He has presented seminars on “Insuring Fiduciary Exposures,” “Insurance Coverage Disputes” and “Agency Succession and Perpetuation” for the Big I. Pitts has co-authored articles in the Indiana Law Review.