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Steve Tuchman, '71, and Reed Bobrick invited alumni and current students to their home on Lake Clearwater in Indianapolis for a networking event over the summer of 2019 . The guests enjoyed an evening of boating on the lake, and the recent graduates received tips, wisdom, and encouragement for studying for the bar exam. Current student Warren Cangany was able to attend and received advice about his career trajectory through and beyond law school.

Tuchman and his husband, Reed Bobrick, made a $100,000 gift commitment to the law school in 2013 to create the Tuchman Bobrick Scholarship. Recent graduate, Stephen Rollins, III, ’19, was the 2016-17 recipient of the scholarship…and happily, passed the July 2019 bar exam.

Tuchman said, “Reed and I enjoy interacting with current students and alumni and find it more useful than griping about how nothing is the same.  It is very rewarding to be asked for advice and in the process  to learn as much from those asking as they might learn from us.”

In the photo from left are Jose Ponce Granados; Stephen Rollins, III, '19; rising 2L student Warren Cangany; Stuart Alexander; Reed Bobrick; Steve Tuchman, '71;Trevor Oakerson, '19; Alex Van Gorp, '16; and Marcus McGhee, '16.

Tuchman is a director at the Indianapolis-based law firm Lewis Kappes. He received the Distinguished Alumni Award by the Gay Lesbian Bisexual Transgender Alumni Association in 2015, and is a longtime friend of IU McKinney. He has served for many years on the school's Board of Visitors, and was honored for his service to the IUPUI campus in 2014 with the Maynard K. Hine Medallion.

Tuchman focuses his practice on immigration and nationality law, with additional experience in real estate, corporate and business law. He speaks Danish as a second language and in 2004, was named by the Danish Queen, Her Majesty Margrethe II, as Consul and serves in that role for Indiana and Kentucky. More recently he has been knighted into the Royal Order of Ridder af Dannabrog in Denmark.  In October 2005, he was appointed by the Mexican Secretary of Foreign Relations to represent the Government of Mexico and its Consulate in Indianapolis. He is regularly included in the Best Lawyers in America and Super Lawyers lists for immigration in Indiana.

Tuchman is also active in the Indianapolis arts community, having served as a Commissioner on the Indiana Arts Commission, Chairman of the American Cabaret Theatre's Board of Directors, and has represented clients in the sports and entertainment fields.