Justin Wear is a Principal with Manier & Herod. Mr. Wear received his B.A. degree (2001), magna cum laude, from the University of the South in Sewanee, Tenn.

Mr. Wear received his J.D. (2004), summa cum laude and Order of the Coif, from the University of Tennessee College of Law, where he served as Student Materials Editor with the Tennessee Law Review.

His article Tort Law – Criminal Malpractice – Criminal Defendant’s Ability to Sue His Defense Attorney for Legal Malpractice is published at 70 TENN. L. REV. 905. 

Mr. Wear primarily practices in the area firm’s surety and fidelity group and is a member of the Tennessee Bar Association, the Nashville Bar Association, and the American Bar Association.

PUBLICATIONS:

Co-Author:  First Party Fidelity Loss -- The Inventory Grab, presented at the ABA FSLC Fall Meeting in Boston, MA

Author:  Fidelity Law Update, presented at the 2010 Southern Surety and Fidelity Claims Conference (Charleston, SC)

Co-Author:  Has the Insured Satisfied the Financial Benefit Requirement Under Insuring Agreement A?, presented at the 2010 ABA FSLC Mid-Winter Meeting in San Francisco, California

Co-Author:  Who Should Pay for the Bank's Mistakes?  A Discussion of Loss Causation under Insuring Agreement D and Insuring Agreement E of the Standard Form No. 24 Financial Institution Bond, presented at the 2009 Southern Surety and Fidelity Claims Conference in Clearwater, Florida

Co-Author:  Chapter VII Loan Loss Coverage Under Financial Institution Bonds (Gilbert J. Schroeder & John J. Tomaine eds, 2008), published by the American Bar Association. 

PRESENTATIONS:

Speaker - 2010 ABA FSLC Fall Meeting (Boston, MA)

Speaker - 2010 Southern Surety and Fidelity Claims Conference (Charleston, SC)

Speaker - 2010 ABA FSLC Mid-Winter Meeting (San Francisco, CA)

Speaker - 2009 Southern Surety and Fidelity Claims Conference (Clearwater, FL)

Speaker - 2007 Fidelity and Surety Law Committee Meeting (Orlando, FL)


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