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Jim co-chairs Lindquist & Vennum’s 10-member Bankruptcy and Creditors' Remedies group. His practice encompasses bankruptcy, debtor-creditor issues, agribusiness matters, and commercial lending and litigation. He also has an active mergers and acquisitions practice and has represented several clients in acquiring assets and businesses via Section 363 sales and plans of reorganization arising from bankruptcy proceedings. Certified in business bankruptcy law by the American Bankruptcy Board of Certification, Jim has represented a number of large companies, lenders, creditor committees, trade creditors and individuals in bankruptcy proceedings, litigation and workouts.After law school, Jim spent two years as the judicial law clerk to the Honorable William A. Hill, United States Bankruptcy Judge for the District of North Dakota. He became an associate with Lindquist & Vennum in 1987 and a partner in 1993. He speaks and writes extensively on various bankruptcy, debtor-creditor and agricultural law topics. Jim has been selected as a Super Lawyer by Minnesota Law & Politics, as a Leading Minnesota Attorney (American Research Corporation), and is AV rated by Martindale-Hubbell. He is a member of the Minnesota State Bar Association’s Bankruptcy Section. | 