Practice Expertise

  • Deliberate Intent Litigation
  • Chemical
  • Construction Law
  • Battle Group - Litigation

Areas of Practice

  • Battle Group - Litigation
  • Chemical
  • Construction Law
  • Deliberate Intent Litigation
  • Litigation
  • Litigation - The Battle Group
  • Product Liability Litigation
  • White Collar Criminal Def. & Compliance
  • White Collar Criminal Defense & Compliance
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Profile

Mr. Teare’s primary practice is litigation defense.

 

Bar Admissions

Admissions

  • West Virginia State Bar
  • West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals
  • United States District Courts for the Northern and Southern Districts of West Virginia
  • United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit

Education

  • Dover Police Academy, State Certification, Highest Academic Average, 1977
  • Wilmington College, B.S., Criminal Justice, summa cum laude, 1987
  • T.C. Williams School of Law, J.D., cum laude, 1990
  • University of Virginia Trial Advocacy Institute, 1996

Areas of Practice

  • Battle Group - Litigation
  • Chemical
  • Construction Law
  • Deliberate Intent Litigation
  • Litigation
  • Litigation - The Battle Group
  • Product Liability Litigation
  • White Collar Criminal Def. & Compliance
  • White Collar Criminal Defense & Compliance

Professional Career

Significant Accomplishments
  • Serving as first chair in jury trials
  • Representing the manufactured housing industry, law enforcement management, and the defense of law enforcement liability and employment issues
  • Serving on numerous appeals cases, civil and criminal bench trials, extraordinary and injunctive proceedings and extensive motions practice
  • Serving as the current General Counsel for the West Virginia Housing Institute, Inc.




  • Articles

    Publications & Presentations

    • Presenter for National Business Institute and Sterling Educational Services on law enforcement liability and employment law topics, including recent national teleconference
    • Legal presenter for meetings of the WVHI, West Virginia Sheriffs’ Association, West Virginia Chiefs of Police Association, Municipal League and West Virginia Association of Counties
    • Instructor for 6th Regional Police Academy, 1996
    • Certified law enforcement in-service instructor for Charleston Police Department and regular speaker for Citizen Police Academy and Neighborhood Assistance Officer classes

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