Jim Cole

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Areas Of Practice:

• Commercial Litigation
• Bankruptcy
• Debtors’ and Creditors’ Rights

Bar Admissions:

• 2001, U.S. District Court, District of Nebraska
• 2000, U.S. Supreme Court, U.S. Courts of Appeal, Seventh and Eighth Circuits and U.S. District Court, Northern District Of Texas
• 1998, U.S. District Court, District of Kansas
• 1997, U.S. District Court, Northern District of Illinois including Trial Bar
• 1996, U.S. District Court, Western District of Missouri
• 1995, U.S. District Court, Central District of Illinois
• 1994, U.S. District Court, Southern District of Illinois
• 1979, Missouri and U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Missouri

Education:

• Harvard University (J.D., cum laude, 1978)
• St. Louis University (B.A., summa cum laude, 1975)
• Phi Beta Kappa; Alpha Sigma Nu

Publications:

• Comment, “The Proposed Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act Amendments of 1976,” 14 Harvard J. Legis., 358-94 (1977)
• “Non-Indexed Judgment Liens on Real Estate in Missouri,” 37 J. Mo. Bar 320 (1981)
• “Employment Taxes on Wage Claims,” 9 NABTALK No. 2 (Summer 1993)
• “The ‘Carve Out’ from Liens and Priorities to Guarantee Payment of Professional Fees in Chapter 11,” 1993 Det.Col.L.Rev. 1499 (1993)
• “Protecting Judgment Liens in Bankruptcy,” 2 Mo.Bus.L.Q. No. 4 (1996)
• “Reaffirmation Proposals of the National Bankruptcy Review Commission,” 2 NLA Review No. 2 (1998)
• “Reaffirmations: Procedures and Problems,” 54 J. Mo. Bar 237 (1998)
• “Preclusion of Debtors` Causes of Action by Confirmation in Bankruptcy,” St. Louis Bar Journal (2002)

Professional Associations and Memberships:

• The Missouri Bar
• Bar Association of Metropolitan St. Louis
• National Lawyers Association (Advisory Council)

Past Employment Positions:

• Assistant U.S. Trustee, Bankruptcy Court, 1988-1993
• Law Clerk to Hon. Albert L. Rendlen, Missouri Supreme Court, 1978-1979