James H. Cossitt

James H Cossitt PC
James Cossitt has practiced in Kalispell, Mont., since 1999 in the areas of bankruptcy & workouts and commercial litigation.   He began his career in insolvency law in Des Moines, IA as a bankruptcy attorney with the FDIC, served as a chapter 7 panel trustee from 1988-95 and as a chapter 11 trustee from 1997 to 2000.  Mr. Cossitt is board-certified by the American Board of Certification in both Business (2005) & Consumer (1995) Bankruptcy Law.  As chair of the Best Practices Working Group of the Ad Hoc Committee on Bankruptcy Court Structure and Insolvency Process, Mr. Cossitt supervised 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). A frequent speaker to professional and trade groups on bankruptcy and related topics, 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 a new bankruptcy law and the transition to a market economy.   Mr. Cossitt received his B.A., with distinction, in 1982 from Iowa State University and his J.D. in 1986 from the University of Iowa College of Law.
 
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