Our Mission


Litigation is the process of taking legal action in court. Our mission is to zealously represent our clients by providing wise counsel and competing in the courtroom. We understand the challenges of filing a lawsuit or being sued; however with our resources and experience, our clients receive the best possible attorney on their side. Do not settle for a timid and complacent lawyer. Hire a real lawyer who will go to battle for you.

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Practice Areas



Civil Litigation
Civil Litigation

Collections
Collections

Business and Contracts
Business and Contracts

Wills, Estate Planning and Probate
Wills, Estate Planning and Probate

Custody & Adoption
Custody & Adoption

Personal Injury
Personal Injury
Civil Litigation

Bear has negotiated and litigated many complex civil legal issues including successfully negotiating customers out of unfair and deceptive timeshare contracts; negotiating and litigating business contract disputes; breach of warranty cases; and pursuing insurance companies for failing to adequately represent their insureds. For more information, click the "Get Started" button.

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Collections

Bear represents financial institutions, property owners, retail businesses, and everyday people in regard to debt collections. Their extensive experience and successful debt collection has made Bear Litigation one of East Tennessee's premier collection law firms. If you or your company need to collect a debt, click on the "Get Started" button.

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Business and Contracts

Whether you're starting a business or looking to protect the one you have, we can help you. From business formation and structuring to contract drafting, we have the tools to get you on the right track to successful entrepreneurship.

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Wills, Estate Planning and Probate

Planning for your family's financial security is crucial, that is why Bear will provide the knowledge and tools you need to protect your loved ones. Bear offers affordable will and estate planning packages that are personally tailored to your wants and needs. Bear also represents many estates in probate matters. Unfortunately, when a loved one dies, their debt does not always go away. Probating an estate is not only a tool to put all creditors on notice of the passing of a debtor, it is also an effective tool to extinguish known and even unknown debts.
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Custody & Adoption

Whether you're looking to protect or provide a forever home for a child, we provide aggressive representation in custody, termination of parental rights and adoption cases. However, we take a no-nonsense approach to child safety and will only work with families that put the best interests of a child before their own. For more information, click the "Get Started" button.

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Personal Injury

Injured? Not your fault? It's time to contact us.

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About the Founder


Bryce M. Hardin, Esq.
Founder

Bryce provides big firm experience, intelligent legal strategies, and common sense initiatives to his areas of practice. While in law school, Bryce served as law clerk for Hagood, Tarpy, & Cox where he gained invaluable knowledge from some of Knoxville’s premier civil litigators. After being admitted to practice law, Bryce was hired as an associate attorney with Tarpy, Cox, Fleishman, & Leveille. During that time, he represented financial institutions, negotiated transactions, resolved and litigated contract disputes, drafted estate planning documents, and probated estates.

Bryce was born and raised in Knoxville, Tennessee where he grew up playing sports, enjoying the outdoors and passionately cheering for the Vols. While receiving his BA in Political Science from the University of Tennessee, Bryce served as a strength and conditioning coach for UT football and baseball and was head of strength and conditioning at the Christian Academy of Knoxville. Thereafter, Bryce earned his Doctor of Jurisprudence from Lincoln Memorial Univeristy School of Law.

Bryce is licensed to practice law in the State of Tennessee and the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee. He is a member of the Tennessee Bar Association, the Knoxville Bar Association and serves on the advisory board for Street Hope TN.

The day after taking the bar exam, Bryce met his wife-to-be. They both enjoy the outdoors, yelling at the Vols and wrangling their rambunctious toddler "Bear."

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