Attorney
Indianapolis, Indiana, 46204
Jason Reese is a founding partner of Wagner Reese, LLP. Feeling called from a young age to champion the pursuit of justice on behalf of the voiceless and the vulnerable, Mr. Reese focuses his practice on personal injury, wrongful death, and medical malpractice. Mr. Reese has successfully tried injury cases to juries and judges throughout Indiana.
Mr. Reese grew up in Northwest Indiana and attended the University of Arizona on an academic scholarship, graduating magna cum laude. He received his law degree with honors from Indiana University School of Law – Bloomington.
Throughout his career, the legal community has bestowed several prestigious accolades on Mr. Reese, including the Indiana State Bar Association’s Young Lawyer of the Year (2003), the Indianapolis Business Journal’s Forty Under 40 (2005), and inclusion in the Top 100 Trial Lawyers in Indiana by The National Trial Lawyers. From 2004 until now, Mr. Reese has been repeatedly named by his peers as an Indiana Super Lawyer (top 5% of his practice area), published in Indianapolis Monthly and Super Lawyer magazines.
From 2016 to 2019, Super Lawyer magazine recognized Mr. Reese as a Top 50 Indiana Lawyer. 2017, he was named Legal Mentor of the Year by College Mentors for Kids. The honors reached new heights in 2019 when Mr. Reese was named one of the Best Lawyers in America. The Indiana Lawyer selected him as a Distinguished Barrister, considered by many to be the highest recognition of attorneys throughout the State of Indiana.
Mr. Reese is passionate about mentoring and providing pro bono legal services to the economically disadvantaged. He has served on the Board of Directors for CenterPoint Counseling, a not-for-profit organization that offers free counseling services to families and children in Marion County. He also serves on the Executive Committee of the Neighborhood Christian Legal Clinic, which helps over 10,000 low-income Hoosiers per year with their legal needs. Mr. Reese also serves on the Board for Edge Mentoring, a not-for-profit group of professionals dedicated to developing the next generation of Godly business leaders throughout the country, and the Grace Care Center Foundation.
Mr. Reese has successfully resolved over 100 cases for seven figures. He is often sought after for interviews by the Indianapolis Business Journal, IndyStar, NBC, CBS, ABC, and Fox. Please visit the Wagner Reese website to read the articles and view several TV reports. Mr. Reese is licensed in Indiana and Illinois and has aggressively served clients nationwide for over 23 years. Mr. Reese’s practice focuses on helping families with catastrophic personal injury, medical malpractice, birth trauma, and wrongful death claims. Mr. Reese and his wife (law school sweetheart), Jill, live in Carmel with their three children.
