John Bolus

Attorney/Shareholder

Maynard Nexsen PC

John is a shareholder at Maynard Nexsen PC, where he has served in prior years as co-chair of its Financial Institutions and Fiduciary Litigation Group. As a litigator, John has a long history of representing banks and other financial service companies in individual and class-wide lender liability cases, in complex collection disputes, in securities class actions and shareholder derivative actions, and in a variety of other types of individual, class-wide, or mass actions.  These cases have included jury trials, arbitrations, and class and mass action litigation in state and federal trial and appellate courts in Alabama, Mississippi, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, Tennessee, New York, California, and other states. John also has conducted targeted internal investigations for financial institutions and other financial services companies, and has defended banks and other financial service companies in connection with regulatory investigations. The Maynard Nexsen firm is a long-time member of the Alabama Bankers Association, and John is a regular attendee of programming of that industry group. He was a founding Board member of a local Birmingham bank.  John has also served on the Board of Governors of the Association of Life Insurance Counsel and as its delegate to the American Bar Association House of Delegates.  He also has served his local and state Bars on boards, task forces, and as a judicial liaison. John was elected by his peers to a seat on the Jefferson County Judicial Commission, which nominates candidates to the Alabama Governor to fill unexpired terms of circuit judges in Jefferson County. In addition, he serves on the Board of Trustees of the United States Court of Appeals Eleventh Circuit Historical Society.  He has taught a variety of continuing legal education courses on trial practice and procedure, internal investigations, and developments in substantive law.