PHOENIX/ TUCSON/ ALBUQUERQUE — For more than 30 years, Jennings Haug Keleher McLeod Waterfall has been a proud co-sponsor of the Western States Surety Conference. This year, the surety industry is gathering in Seattle, Washington on Friday, May 2, 2025, for the 2025 Western States Surety Conference: “THERE IS NOTHING ARTIFICIAL IN SURETY CL[AI]MS: Applying a Personal Touch.” The program will feature discussions on the following topics:
- The Smell of Fear: Why Mediation Still Requires a Personal Touch
- Early Claim Intervention: Using Human Intuition and Expertise in Pre-Claim Investigation and Financing
- Changing Procedures to Address Costs Above the Bond Penal Sum
- Adding the Human Element to Maximize Recoveries and Enforce Surety Indemnity Rights
- The state of the surety industry
- Legal updates from each of the Western States.
This year’s program is at Seattle’s Edgewater Hotel, at Pier 67. A special pre-conference dinner will be held Thursday evening, May 1, 2025 at Ivar’s Acres of Claims For details, view the pre-conference event invitation and conference registration link here.
For additional information about the 2025 program, contact the attorneys in the JKW’s Fidelity & Surety Law Section.
About Jennings Haug Keleher McLeod Waterfall LLP
JKW is a full-service litigation and business law firm with extensive trial, litigation management, dispute resolution and complex litigation experience. The firm’s attorneys address a wide range of legal matters for businesses and individuals in the areas of antitrust, attorney regulation and ethics, appellate law, business law and litigation, banking, bankruptcy and creditors’ rights, civil rights and constitutional law, commercial real estate, construction, corporate law, employment, environmental, comprehensive estate planning, trusts, probate and administration services, family law, fidelity and surety, government relations and lobbying, insurance defense and coverage, medical and professional malpractice, municipal law, personal injury, energy regulatory matters and tribal law, as well as alternative dispute resolution. JKW has offices in Phoenix and Tucson, Arizona and Albuquerque, New Mexico to serve clients in the Southwest and throughout the United States. For additional information, visit jkwlawyers.com.
