John R. LaBar – Henry, McCord, Bean, Miller, Gabriel & LaBar, P.L.L.C.

Practice/Organization Description

John R. LaBar is a named member of Henry, McCord, Bean, Miller, Gabriel & LaBar, P.L.L.C. His practice focuses on business/corporate, real property, employment (representing both employers and employees), tax, intellectual property and bankruptcy (creditors). Mr. LaBar has extensive experience negotiating and structuring business, corporate and real estate transactions, including choice and formation of entities, purchase and sale of businesses and corporate assets and real estate, and commercial lending and leasing transactions.

He has also successfully litigated a multitude of cases involving contractual, employment and business disputes.

John represents a multitude of corporations and other business entities with interests both within and outside Tennessee. He advises these clients on issues of corporate and director responsibility and matters of general fiduciary responsibility.

Mr. LaBar is the Town Attorney for the Town of Morrison, Tennessee and also currently serves as an Adjunct Professor of Law at the University of Tennessee College of Law teaching Contract Drafting.

A frequent speaker, Mr. LaBar has acted as faculty for legal education seminars on numerous business and employment topics. His firm is AV-rated by Martindale-Hubbell and is listed in its Bar Register of Preeminent Lawyers.

John has also been named a 2010 Mid-South Rising Star by Super Lawyers.

Bar Admissions

2000, Tennessee; U.S. Tax Court; 2001, U.S. Court of Appeals, Armed Forces; U.S. District and Bankruptcy Courts, 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; 2011, U.S. Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit, U.S. District and Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of Florida.

Education

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

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Professional Associations & Memberships

Coffee County (President 2004-2005; Vice-President, 2003-2004; Secretary/Treasurer, 2002-2003), Tennessee Bar Association (Member, Sections on: Business; Labor and Employment; Real Estate; and Estate Planning and Probate) American Bar Association (Member, Sections on: Business; Labor and Employment; Tax; Real Property, Probate and Trust; and Intellectual Property); Tennessee Bar Association House of Delegates Member for the Fourteenth Judicial District (2004 -); Tennessee Municipal Attorneys Association; Tullahoma Sunrise Rotary Club, Member 2004- (President 2007-2008).

Honors and Awards

Recipient, W.K. McClure Fellowship for the Study of World Affairs, 1999.

Named a 2010 Mid-South Rising Star by Super Lawyers in the areas of Business/Corporate, Real Estate and Corporate Litigation. This designation recognizes attorneys who are 40 years old or younger, or have been in practice for 10 years or less. Only 2.5 percent of lawyers in each region are named to the Rising Stars list.