Cossitt Law Firm

Experience – Integrity – Expertise
The staff at Cossitt Law is well qualified to assist
you with your business and legal needs.

The staff at Cossitt Law can help you untangle your most complex debt issues, while protecting your best interests. We provide all of our clients—debtors, creditors and trustees—no matter how big or small, with the most personal, efficient, and cost-effective LEGAL SERVICES available.

Our specialty is DEBT COUNSELING. This includes helping clients weigh their options, make informed decisions, anticipate and avoid problems, and resolve disputes in a timely manner.

No issue is too complex. Our strength is dealing with complicated, highly-specialized cases.

James H. Cossitt, Attorney: Jim has over 25 years of legal experience in the areas of bankruptcy, workouts, secured transactions, UCC, commercial litigation and consumer finance and business law.

Originally from central Iowa, Jim Cossitt attended law school at the University of Iowa. He has lived and practiced in the Flathead since 1998.

Jim is admitted to practice law in the state and federal courts of Montana, Colorado, Michigan and Iowa, is Board Certified in both Business & Consumer and Bankruptcy Law by the AMERICAN BOARD of CERTIFICATION and is a member of the AMERICAN BAR ASSOCIATION, the AMERICAN BANKRUPTCY INSTITUTE, the NATIONAL ASSOCIATION of CONSUMER BANKRUPTCY ATTORNEYS, and the NATIONAL ASSOCIATION of BANKRUPTCY TRUSTEES.

A small sampling of his past and present experience includes:

•Chapter 7 panel trustee in the ND Iowa from 1988 to 1995

•Chapter 11 trustee in the WD Michigan from 1997 to 2000

•Montana editor of WEST GROUP'S BANKRUPTCY EXEMPTION MANUAL

•Board of Directors Member of the AMERICAN BOARD of CERTIFICATION

•Chairman of Best Practices Working Group, that drafted “Working Paper: Best Practices for Debtors’ Attorneys” 64 BUS LAW, 79 (2008)
(Download PDF)

•Task force member and co-author of “Attorney Liability Under Section 707(B)(4) of the Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act of 2005” 61 BUS. LAW. 697 (2006) (Download PDF)

Jim is a passionate mountaineer. When he pulls his nose from the legal grindstone, he trades his laptop for an ice axe and heads to the mountains. He serves on the Board of Directors of the GLACIER MOUNTAINEERING SOCIETY and is Secretary of the group. While a member of the FLATHEAD NORDIC SKI PATROL for almost 10 years, he served as the group’s Treasurer for 5 years.

See Jim's LINKEDIN PROFILE to read recommendations and learn more about his extensive experience in bankruptcy and consumer law.

Hours: 8:30 – 5:00 Mon/Wed/Fri
The office is closed to the public Tuesdays and Thursdays so we can focus
our uninterrupted and undivided attention on your legal issues.