Kansas City, Mo. – November 12, 2026: Matt Geary, a Rouse Frets White, P.C. attorney, was a panelist at the Pearlman Conference in Seattle, an annual convention attended by surety professionals from nationwide industry-leading companies. Matt, a frequent presenter and author on topics impacting the surety industry, delivered a presentation titled “Privilege and Work Product Issues with Sureties and their Consultants” that outlined the legal issues sureties may face when determining whether communications and documents are protected.
About Matt Geary: Matt has extensive experience representing surety companies in a wide variety of litigation and arbitration claim situations. He is adept in analyzing and defending claims on construction performance and payment bonds, financial institution bonds, commercial crime policies, and commercial bond claims.
About the Surety and Fidelity Law Practice Group: The law firm’s Surety and Fidelity Law Practice Group represents leading surety companies in a wide variety of litigation and arbitration claim situations. The group’s attorneys analyze and defend claims on performance and payment bonds, commercial bonds, financial institution bonds, and commercial crime policies. In addition to their decades of experience, our attorneys are frequent authors and presenters on topics impacting the surety industry and hold leadership positions with the American Bar Association’s Fidelity and Surety Law Committee and the Surety Claims Institute.
About the firm: Rouse Frets White offers highly skilled lawyers in many practice areas with vast real-world experience. Our clients benefit from blue-ribbon talent unencumbered by mega firm business models.
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