Steven S. Hoar is a litigator focusing on business disputes. He handles contract, construction, corporate, and real estate disputes in state and federal courts. Steve is committed to exploring cost-effective alternative dispute resolution opportunities, such as mediation, while also aggressively building a case for trial. Steve also has extensive experience enforcing creditors' rights through liens, replevins, receiverships, garnishments, and other enforcement techniques.

Experience:

• Enforces commercial contract terms on behalf of businesses.

• Prosecutes and defends construction defect claims against contractors, sureties, and design professionals.

• Enforces contractors' rights in multi-party construction lawsuits.

• Represents clients in shareholder disputes.

• Defends financial institutions in lawsuits alleging unlawful lending practices.

• Represents landlords and tenants in commercial lease disputes.

• Enforces property owner rights.

• Fights for taxpayers in disputes with taxing authorities.

• Represents clients in cases alleging violations of consumer protection laws.

• Manages over 19,000 open consumer collection cases with debt totaling more than $110,000,000.

• Enforces creditors' rights in thousands of matters, including assertion and foreclosure of mortgages and liens, replevins, receiverships, repossessions, garnishments, personal property executions, collection of judgments, and bankruptcy.

Business & Professional Affiliations:

• Evansville Bar Association, (Director; Past-Chairman of Commercial Law Section)

• Indiana State Bar Association, Construction & Surety Law Section and Bankruptcy & Creditors' Rights Section

• Graduate, National Institute for Trial Advocacy's Mid-Central Regional Trial Advocacy Program

• Commercial Law League of America, Creditors' Rights Section

• National Association of Retail Collection Attorneys

• Defense Trial Counsel of Indiana, Construction Law Section

• American Inns of Court

Community/Civic Affiliations:

• Evansville Philharmonic Orchestra (Director)

• Evansville Westside Kiwanis Club (Past-President)

• Sterling United Federal Credit Union (Chairman of the Board of Directors)

• Vanderburgh Law Library Foundation (Director)

• Leadership Evansville Graduate

Honors & Awards:

• Indiana District of Kiwanis Distinguished Club President Award

• CALI Award for Trial Process

Publications & Seminar Presentations:

• "Construction Case Law Update," Defense Trial Counsel of Indiana, November 2008.

• "Collection Law Tips and Strategies," National Business Institute, November 2008.

• "Public Contracts and Procurement Regulations," Lorman Education Services, July 2008

• "Courtroom Technology," Brooks American Inn of Court, November 2005

• "Going Legal: Using the Courts to Collect Bad Debt," Evansville Chapter of the Institute of Management Accountants, March 2005

• "A Complete Guide to Handling Debt Collection in Indiana," Lorman Education Services, March 2005

• "A Complete Guide to Handling Debt Collection in Indiana," Lorman Education Services, September 2004

• "Going Legal: Using the Courts to Collect Bad Debt," Evansville Chapter of the National Association of Credit Managers, February 2004

• "A Complete Guide to Handling Debt Collection in Indiana," Lorman Education Services, July 2003

• "Avoiding Claims and Disputes Between General Contractors, Subcontractors and Suppliers," Evansville Chapter of the Construction Financial Management Association, September 2002

• "Preserving Error at Depositions," Brooks American Inn of Court, May 2002

• "Going Legal: Using the Courts to Collect Bad Debt," Evansville Chapter of the Institute of Management Accountants, March 2002

• "An Overview of Indiana Law Regarding Proximate Cause in Homicide Cases and Admissibility of Evidence of a Victim’s Past Sexual Conduct," Brooks American Inn of Court, May 2000