Greg Feary

- Independent Contractor Counseling

- Insurance & Risk Managment

- Transportation Contracts

- Legislative Services

- Emerging Technologies

- Mergers & Acquisitions

- Investigations & Audits

- Corporate Structuring & Strategy

- Alternative Staffing Agreements & Driver Leasing

- Antitrust & Trade Regulation

- Strategic Advocacy Support

Gregory Feary is president and a managing partner of the Scopelitis Law Firm. He focuses on laws regarding transportation and related industries, including independent contractor issues, legislation, insurance, corporate structure designs, and contract matters. He also serves as a primary contact for mergers and acquisitions due diligence work and advises on corporate structure and risk mitigation issues.

He has created and counseled many captive insurance companies. Additional services Feary provides include:

-- Auditing independent contractor programs

-- Providing legislative support on independent contractor issues

-- Counsel regarding alternative risk programs, including single and group captive insurers, risk retention groups, and various self-insurance and self-insured retention programs

- - Insurance audits

-- Supervision of litigation in the areas of premium disputes and specialized transportation insurance coverage controversies, including those involving occupational accident insurance

-- Designing independent contractor programs

-- Defending independent contractor disputes

Feary is a national thought leader in transportation and is involved with many industry organizations.

Purdue University’s Center for Transportation Distribution Logistics

-- Advisory Board

American Trucking Associations (ATA)

-- Vice Chair, National Accounting and Finance Council Risk Management & Insurance Advisory Committee

-- ATA Insurance Task Force, Chairman of the Lawyer’s Subcommittee

-- National transportation insurance law counsel

National Home Delivery Association

The Customized Logistics and Delivery Association

Indiana University’s Robert H. McKinney School of Law

-- Adjunct Professor of Law

Indianapolis Bar Association

Indiana State Bar Association

American Bar Association

-- The Definitive Industry Primer on Occupational Accident Insurance in Trucking

-- Independent Contractor Employment Classification: A Survey of State and Federal Laws in the Motor Carrier Industry, 35 Trans. Law J. 139 (2008)

-- 1995 Developments in Workers’ Compensation, 29 Ind. L. Rev. 1139 (1996)

-- Drafter, Indiana owner-operator exception under the definition of an employee in the Worker’s Compensation Act

Eastern Illinois University

Bachelor of Arts

Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law

Juris Doctor

Who’s Who

2025

Client-Nominated Stand-Out Lawyer

Thomson Reuters

2025

Pinnacle Award for Lifetime Achievement Recipient

National Home Delivery Association

2023

Peer Selection Survey

Indiana Super Lawyers®

AV Peer Review Ratings and American Lawyer Media, Top Rated Lawyer in Transportation

Martindale-Hubbell

2019 International Advisory Experts Award for Transport Law in Indiana

International Advisory Experts Global Alliance

AV Preeminent Attorney “Midwest’s Top-Rated Lawyers”

ALM Media Legal Leaders, Martindale-Hubbell, The National Law Journal

Client Service All-Star

BTI