John R. LaBar

Member BV Peer Review Rated

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

APRIL 16, 2012

  JOHN R. LaBAR – On September 20, 2012, John R. LaBar will serve as a Faculty Member for an all-day CLE program in Chattanooga, Tennessee for Sterling Legal Services, Inc. entitled the Employment Law:  Beyond the Basics.  John will present an hour long program on the “NLRB’s Expanding Agenda”.

March 30, 2012

Henry & McCord Represents Southern Community Bank in Branch Acquisition. Clifton N. Miller with Henry & McCord represents Southern Community Bank in connection with its acquisition of Community First Bank & Trust Murfreesboro branch.  Southern Community Bank is currently a $115M institution with branches in Tullahoma and Sewanee, Tennessee and … Continue reading →

March 30, 2012

Community Banks – Senate Passes Legislation To Raise the 500 Shareholder Threshold for SEC Registration The United States Senate has approved the Jumpstart our Business Startups (JOBS) Act. H.R. 3606 that would raise the SEC registration threshold for financial institutions.  Senators voted 73-26 in favor of the JOBS Act, which … Continue reading →

Publications

APRIL 13, 2012

JOHN R. LaBAR – U.S. District Judge David Norton, District of South Carolina, Charleston Division, has ruled (in Case Number No. 2:11-cv-02516-DCN, Chamber of Commerce of the United States of America and South Carolina Chamber of Commerce v. National Labor Relations Board, et al.) that the NLRB cannot require private employers … Continue reading →

APRIL 1, 2012

JOHN R. LaBAR – Client Alert on NLRB Employee Rights Poster:  Federal Court Upholds Rule.  April 30 Deadline Still Applies. On March 2, Judge Amy Berman Jackson, United States District Court Judge for the District of Columbia, upheld the National Labor Relations Board’s rule requiring most employers, including employers without … Continue reading →

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 →