My name is Cameron Michael Fathauer (“Fad-hour”). I’m a husband, father, author & attorney at Schad Law in New Albany, Indiana, practicing personal injury, traumatic brain injury, and estate planning law in Indiana and Kentucky.

In 2015, a severe brain injury destroyed a third of my skull and redirected my path from seminary to law school. That experience shapes everything: my legal work advocating for TBI survivors, my writing on personhood and human dignity, and my understanding of what it means to be remade rather than destroyed. In September 2025, I delivered the keynote at the American Bar Association’s Commission on Lawyer Assistance Programs National Conference, introducing my “Performative Utterance Project” framework for understanding identity beyond performance.

My book Saving the Subject: How I Found You When I Almost Lost Me weaves memoir with philosophical and theological reflection on what remains when everything else is stripped away.

Education & Home

Graduated from Columbus North High School (2015/16), SBTS/Boyce College (2018), and Indiana University Maurer School of Law (2021). Currently located in Southern Indiana with Chelsea, my wife of ten years, and our four young children.

LOR

The letter of recommendation Matthew Schad wrote for me after my first internship with the firm, back when it was “Schad & Schad Trial Lawyers.”