Since passing the Indiana bar in 1987, Rex Baker has devoted his entire legal career exclusively to representing injured plaintiffs. After receiving his juris doctorate from Western State University College of Law in Fullerton, Calif., he returned to Indiana and launched his legal career with a prominent Indianapolis plaintiff-only civil litigation firm where he handled personal injury and medical malpractice cases for 13 years. Toward the end of his tenure there, Rex decided he wanted to work closer to his family in the western suburbs and opened his own law office in Avon. One day he received a phone call from attorney Caroline A. Gilchrist, who was in a similar situation. She’d grown tired of the commute to her practice in downtown Indianapolis and wanted to work closer to her home in the western suburbs. Few medical-malpractice plaintiffs’ lawyers have the breadth of experience that Caroline Gilchrist brings to a potential case. Not only have medical malpractice cases constituted the bulk of her practice since she joined forces with Rex Baker in 1999, for 12 previous years she worked as an attorney on the other side of the med mal legal divide, working in a downtown Indianapolis firm that defended doctors and health-care providers being sued.