Linda Phillips, Esq., is Senior of Counsel at Jason Wiener PC, a public benefit corporation, based in Denver, Colorado.  She obtained a J.D. from the University of Denver, Sturm College of Law in 2003.  Linda represents small to medium-sized businesses, with a strong emphasis on all types of cooperatives.  Her work includes business formations, business structural analysis, and general counsel for the cooperative community related to their business enterprises.  Linda advises clients about business and cooperative entities and tax issues involved with starting a company or converting to an employee-owned entity. Linda helped form and was on the Board of Directors of the Rocky Mountain Employee Ownership Center, a nonprofit that promotes employee-owned business models.  She aided the organization grow and focus its efforts on employee ownership as a viable alternative to today's corporate culture.  She has given presentations on cooperatives in several other states and can be seen with her colleague Jason Wiener on the Northwest Cooperative Development Center's YouTube channel with a seven-part series on converting businesses to worker-owned entities, called the Legacy Tour.

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