David J. Carr

David J. Carr is a partner in the labor and employment law section of Ice Miller LLP, Indianapolis Indiana, focusing his practice in the areas of employment litigation, personnel policies, employment discrimination, sports law, and employment contracts involving trade secrets, confidential information and covenants against competition. Mr. Carr is a veteran labor negotiator and has handled numerous labor arbitrations, union avoidance and other collective bargaining matters. He also possesses substantial experience representing employers in wrongful discharge lawsuits and employment discrimination investigations, including sexual harassment situations, as well as litigation of class and collective actions under the Fair Labor Standards Act, in addition to federal and state jury trials.

Mr. Carr serves as a contributing author for the ABA treatises Covenants Not to Compete: A State by State Survey (BNA 1991), The Employee Duty of Loyalty: A State by State Survey (BNA 1995), Employment Trade Secrets Law: A State by State Survey (BNA 1997), Tortious Interference in the Employment Context (BNA 2004); Employment Litigation Handbook (ABA 2010). Mr. Carr co-authored "The Development of Employee Rights and Responsibilities from 1985 to 2010" for the ABA Journal of Labor and Employment Law. Spring, 2010, Vol. 25, Number 3. He also worked as a contributing author to Harvey’s Indiana Practice and Procedure (West 1988). He is Editor-in-Chief of the Indiana Chamber of Commerce's "Indiana Employer's Guide to Wage and Hour Issues" and serves as the Chair of the Indiana Chamber of Commerce’s annual Wage and Hour Law seminar.

Mr. Carr is admitted to practice in Indiana, as well as the Fourth, Seventh, and Tenth Circuit Courts of Appeal, and the United States Supreme Court. He has successfully taken cases to bench and/or jury trial in Indiana, Ohio, Kentucky, Michigan, Wisconsin, Colorado, and Georgia. He is a member of the American, Indiana and Indianapolis Bar Associations, and serves on the Employment Rights and Responsibilities (ERR) Committee of the ABA Labor Section. He served as the Management National Co-Chair of the ABA Labor Section ERR Committee from 2022 through 2024. He is a two-time past Chair of the Indianapolis Bar Association Labor Law Section. He is also a member of the Christian Legal Society, the Federalist Society, and is a Diplomate of the Court Practice Institute.

Active in his community, Mr. Carr served as an elected member of the Zionsville Town Council and Zionsville Plan Commission from 1999 to 2009. In 2021, Mr. Carr served as Co-Chair of the American Cancer Society Indianapolis Gala and served as the sole Chair in 2022. He is currently an Area Board Member for the Indiana Chapter of the American Cancer Society. He also currently serves on the Board of Advisors of Horizon House, which serves the Indianapolis homeless community.

Mr. Carr has been named an Indiana "Super Lawyer" every year since 2004, and in 2011 (and thereafter) named a "Best Lawyer in America." In 2012, Mr. Carr was named to the College of Labor and Employment Lawyers, only the 10th lawyer from Indiana to ever be inducted into that organization. Mr. Carr was also declared "Indianapolis Labor and Employment Lawyer of the Year" by Best Lawyers in 2013, and again in 2022, and 2024. In 2025, he was named an Indiana “Top Lawyer” by Indianapolis Monthly magazine.

Mr. Carr received his Bachelor of Arts from DePauw University, graduating summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa in 1981. He then earned his Juris Doctorate from Georgetown University Law Center in 1984. He also received the Res Gestae Award for Outstanding Legal Article of the Year for his paper on wrongful termination in Indiana in 1988. Mr. Carr is an Indiana Bar Foundation Fellow.