About Custom Law

Nicholas Dandurand started out prosecuting the State’s cases, not defending them. As a Deputy Prosecutor in Hamilton County, he learned the evidentiary standards, police protocols, and how the local courts actually run, from the inside. He puts every bit of that to work against the State now that he defends a criminal case.

Before law, he served six years in the Indiana Army National Guard as a pneudraulics specialist, keeping the hydraulic and pneumatic systems on military helicopters running. He went on to Ball State University, then earned his law degree from Valparaiso University School of Law.

His practice runs across five areas: family law and divorce, criminal defense, mediation, commercial collections, and e-discovery. He’s a state-certified Registered Domestic Relations Mediator in Indiana, so he can fight for one side of a divorce or custody case, or, when both parties want it, sit in the middle as a neutral and help them settle without a trial. Earlier in his career at the international firm Arnold & Porter, he built discovery protocols for corporate document reviews and ran teams of hundreds of attorneys at once; complex, document-heavy litigation doesn’t rattle him.

As Custom Law’s Chief Operating Officer, he also runs the firm’s day-to-day.

Bob Summerfield learned to try cases by prosecuting them. For years, he served as a Deputy Prosecuting Attorney in two Indiana counties, Hamilton and Madison, handling felonies and trying hundreds of cases for the State. He knows exactly how a prosecutor builds a case, because building them was his job. Now he uses that against the State, from the inside out.

He has practiced law in Indiana for more than twenty years. His defense work runs the full range, from infractions and misdemeanors up through Level 1 to Level 6 felonies, with serious drug charges, violent crimes, theft and property offenses, and probation violations at the center of it. In OWI cases, he goes straight to the mechanics: the stop itself, the warrant authorizing a blood draw, and whether the breath-test device was ever calibrated as the law requires.

He also handles divorce and custody, domestic battery and protective orders, and personal injury, including commercial-vehicle wrecks, where he makes the insurance company account for what its driver actually cost you.

Before law school, Summerfield earned his degree from Purdue University, where he focused his studies on how juries think. It is the same instinct he brings into a courtroom now. He went on to earn his law degree from Valparaiso University School of Law.

In his words: “I fought the law and I won.”

Kevin McCormick leads Custom Law's Illinois practice from the Lake Bluff office. He's admitted in both Illinois and Indiana and handles civil and business litigation, contract disputes, and intellectual property matters for clients across Lake County and the North Chicago area.

Kevin is a lifelong resident of Lake County, Illinois, and concentrates his practice in the areas of corporate and business law, as well as commercial and intellectual property litigation in both state and federal courts. Kevin is corporate or general counsel to a wide variety of businesses and other commercial parties, representing them in civil litigation matters, including breach of contract, fraud, consumer fraud, breach of fiduciary duty, partnership dissolution, and other business disputes. Kevin complements his broad litigation practice with a full array of transactional services, including contract review, drafting, and negotiation, business formation and corporate governance issues, leasing, real estate, manufacturing and distribution agreements, copyright, trademark, and mergers and acquisitions.

Kevin also borrows from his unique intellectual property background in the government sector with the United States Patent and Trademark Office, corporate sector with Kraft Foods, and now in the private sector, to provide an immeasurable range of IP transactional and litigation services to his clients.

Kevin is a member of the Illinois State Bar Association, the Indiana State Bar Association, and the Lake County (Illinois) Bar Association where he is on the editorial board for The Docket.

Kevin is an avid Chicago Bears fan, so much so he always brags about the proximity of the Chicagoland office to Halas Hall.

Connor Rich is a partner at Custom Law, practicing primarily in family law and criminal defense.

Before joining the firm, he worked for the Indiana Prosecuting Attorneys Council, handling legal research and document review, and he clerked in Hamilton County Superior Court 1 under Judge Steven Nation. Between the two, he learned how the State builds its positions and how a courtroom looks from inside the judge’s chambers, and he brings both to the cases he handles now.

He earned his degree at DePauw University, where he played four years of college basketball, then went on to earn his J.D. from the Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law in 2018. Outside the office, he is usually at Wrigley Field for a Cubs game, out on a golf course, or trying a new restaurant with his fiancé.

Handling personal injury matters in Indiana courts since 1995, Ronald S. Todd understands the challenges facing injured clients and the seriousness with which insurance companies approach every claim.

Ronald provides compassionate guidance while pursuing the medical care and financial compensation his clients need. He gives straight answers, explains the available options, and is prepared to take a case to trial when necessary to protect a client’s rights.

Josh Cumming is an accomplished criminal, administrative, and appellate attorney. Before private practice, he served in the Tippecanoe County Prosecutor’s Office and as a federal attorney in the U.S. Army JAG Corps, with assignments in Afghanistan, Iraq, Qatar, Germany, and across the United States.

As a former state prosecutor and Army JAG attorney, Josh now represents private citizens appealing criminal convictions. His government experience gives him uncommon insight into state appellate processes.