John R. LaBar

John R. LaBar

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Practice Areas:

Corporate Law; Commercial Transactions; Business Transactions; Probate; Estate Planning; Intellectual Property; Employment Law.

Admitted:

2000, Tennessee; U.S. Tax Court; 2001, U.S. Court of Appeals, Armed Forces; U.S. District Court, Eastern and Middle Districts of Tennessee; 2004, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit and U.S. Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit; 2005, United States Supreme Court; U.S. District Court, Northern District of Florida, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit.

Law School:

Franklin Pierce Law Center, Intellectual Property Summer Institute, 1998; Cornell Law School-Universite de Paris, Pantheon-Sorbonne, Summer Institute of International and Comparative Law, 1999; University of Tennessee College of Law at Knoxville, J.D., Concentration in Business Transactions, 2000.

College:

University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, B.A., 1997.

Member:

Coffee County (President 2004-2005; Vice-President, 2003-2004; Secretary/Treasurer, 2002-2003), Tennessee Bar Association (Member, Sections on: Buisiness Law; Labor & Employment Law; Real Estate Law; Estate Planning and Probate); American Bar Association (Member, Secions on: Business Law; Labor And Employment Law; Taxation; Real Property, Trust and Estate Law; Intellectual Property); Tennessee Bar Association House of Delegates Member for the Fourteenth Judicial District. (2005-)

Biography:

Phi Alpha Delta. Member: Constitutional Law Moot Court Team, 1999-2000; Transactions: Tennessee Business Law Journal, 1998-2000. Recipient, W.K. McClure Fellowship for the Study of World Affairs, 1999. Author: “Combating the Cost of Doing Business: The Benefits of Implementing A Tennessee Drug-Free Workplace,” Tenn. B.L.J., Vol. 3, Issue 2. Town Attorney, Town of Morrison, Tennessee 2004-present.

Born:

East Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania, August 7, 1973

News and Publications (see all)

News

January 29-31, 2012

CLIFTON N. MILLER – Clifton N. Miller attended the 18th Annual Acquire or be Acquired Conference by Bank Director Magazine on January 29-31, 2012 in Phoenix, AZ. The Annual Acquire or be Acquired Conference sponsored by Bank Director Magazine is a three day seminar held each January for bank … Continue reading →

January 12, 2012

JAMES H. HENRY II – James H. Henry II has been asked to give an Estate Planning seminar to the employees of the University of Tennessee Space Institute, at the Institute on February 23, 2012. Mr. Henry has been asked by the University of Tennessee to give this seminar … Continue reading →

November 2011

JOHN R. LaBAR – John has been named a Mid-South Rising Star by Super Lawyers. John has been recognized by Super Lawyers in the areas of Business/Corporate, Real Estate and Employment Law. This designation recognizes attorneys who are 40 years old or younger, or have been in practice for … Continue reading →

Publications

February 20, 2012

CLIFTON N. MILLER – BANKS MAY BE LIABILE FOR ACCEPTING CHECKS MADE PAYABLE TO A PRINCIPAL THAT ARE DEPOSITED BY A FIDUCIARY INTO THE FIDUCIARY’S PERSONAL ACCOUNT. In West v. Regions Bank, 2011 WL 3059693 (July 26, 2011), the Tennessee Court of Appeals addresses the statutory immunity granted to banks … Continue reading →

January 1, 2012

CLIFTON N. MILLER – The impact of the RED FLAG CLARIFICATION ACT on the FAIR AND ACCURATE CREDIT TRANSACTIONS ACT The Fair and Accurate Credit Transactions Act of 2003 (“the FACT Act”) directed the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) to promulgate rules requiring creditors to implement programs to detect and respond … Continue reading →

October 17-23, 2011

JAMES H. HENRY II and JOHN R. LaBAR – Pursuant to H.R. 1499, accepted September 2008, Congress designated the third full week in October each year as National Estate Planning Awareness Week. According to recent studies, more than 120 million Americans do not have up to date estate plans to … Continue reading →