Bankruptcy, debtor / creditor, workouts and litigation counsel (business & commercial).
Hours by appointment only, please call.
James H. Cossitt has practiced in Kalispell, Mont., since 1999 in the areas of bankruptcy & workouts, business & commercial litigation, real estate, landlord / tenant, secured transactions and construction law. He served as a chapter 7 panel trustee in the N.D. of Iowa from 1988-95 and as a chapter 11 trustee in the W.D. of Michigan from 1997 to 2000.
We currently conduct all phases of state court and bankruptcy court litigation with debtors, creditors and third parties. Our clients includ business debtors, creditors, committees, petitioning creditors and trustees. We regularly consult with law firms on specialized bankruptcy matters and serve as an expert witness in legal malpractice cases.
As chair of the Best Practices Working Group Mr. Cossitt guided the publication of the “Working Paper: Best Practices for Debtors’ Attorneys”, 64 Bus. Law 79 (2008), which was a follow up to an earlier Report by the Task force, entitled “Attorney liability under section 707(b)(4) of the Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act of 2005”, 61 Bus. Law. 697 (2006).
Mr. Cossitt was a member of a task force of US bankruptcy judges, law professors and others who consulted with the Slovak Parliament in Bratislava, Slovakia, in 1993 on drafting a new bankruptcy law and the transition to a market economy.
