Patricia Wager is a partner at TLGGR. Tricia focuses her practice on advising sureties and construction industry participants on claims situations, performance bond defaults, payment bond claims, and bankruptcy issues, as well as complex indemnity and collection, pursued through litigation, negotiation and/or alternative dispute resolutions. She regularly handles claims on executors and administrator bonds, court fiduciary bonds, and guardianship matters, and provides broad-ranging counsel on fidelity bond claims and conflicts. She is a frequent advisor on creditor’s rights in bankruptcy.
Tricia is actively involved in industry organizations including the ABA TIPS Fidelity and Surety Law Committee, the Pearlman Association and the Surety Claims Institute. Tricia was an FSLC Vice-Chair from 2017-2020, a Mid-Winter surety program chair in 2012, a co-editor of The Surety and Bankruptcy,1st Edition in 2010, and a contributing author to, among other publications, The Law of Performance Bonds, 3d Edition, “Chapter 5, The Surety’s Rights of Recover Against Principal and Indemnitors under the Common Law and Indemnity Agreement”, The Bond Default Manual 4th Edition, “Chapter 5 – Takeover”, and Financial Institution Bonds, 4th Edition, Chapter 11 – The Principal Exclusions” . She is a well-regarded industry speaker who, as education director, program chair, or presenter has arranged or contributed to multi-day programs and CLE focusing on the areas of surety and construction law, as well as fidelity bond coverage, MBE/WBE issues, bankruptcy and related topics.
