About James C. Underhill

Jim Underhill has been practicing law for over 29 years, with specific consciousness on enterprise advice, actual estate problems and investment, and business transactions.
Coining the Term Business Divorce ® to explain a totally specialized and essential form of felony difficulty and felony dispute.
While a civil litigator a few years ago, Jim observed that many disputes between the owners and operators of closely held and circle of relatives agencies resulted within the crumble of the underlying enterprise due to the acrimony involved. He developed the expertise and coined the time period Business Divorce to explain the specialised legal services he offers to deal with these issues. The ultimate ten years had been spent refining his capabilities and strategies in providing offerings to customers undergoing dissolution of their agencies.
Jim additionally offers mediation services in cases involving dissolution of a business whilst counsel may additionally already be present or litigation is underway. He gives a impartial point of view primarily based not simplest on the law however additionally on significant revel in with enterprise disputes to assist store the enterprise whilst resolving disputes.
Real Estate Disputes
Jim is mainly informed in the analysis and safety of unusual actual estate interests for builders, land proprietors, and additionally regarding specialised houses including patented mining claims and U.S. Forest in-holdings. He has also handled numerous unfavourable possession and business actual property cases, consisting of the foreclosure of two special Colorado ski motels and other commercial and residential properties.
A Brief History of Jim
After passing the bar in 1979, Jim served within the U.S. Army Judge Advocate General s Corps. As trial counsel and government appellate suggest, he prosecuted at trial and on appeal extra than six hundred courts-martial. He then went directly to become a tribulation legal professional at the U.S. Department of Justice, serving in the criminal section of the Tax Division, in which he prosecuted severa instances related to violations of the tax laws inside the federal courts. During his tenure in Washington, D.C., Jim obtained the longest sentences adjudged to date against tax protestor (armed forces) defendants.
He left in 1986 to escape to the mountains and exercise civil litigation and commercial enterprise regulation within the Denver Metro region. He worked with some of non-public law places of work till establishing his own exercise in 1993. Since 1994, Jim has practiced regulation with his wife and law associate, Joanne.

Languages

Hungarian (Spoken, Written) Romanian (Spoken, Written) Spanish (Spoken, Written)