Family Law

• Divorce
• Adoption
• Guardianship
  Probate is one part of administration. It’s the legal process of transferring title of assets from a decedent to his or her beneficiaries. Even if all property is held in a trust, that trust still needs to go through an administration process. Finally, when a person lacks capacity, the legal system creates a process for administering guardianship, conservatorship, or power of attorney directives for an incapacitated person’s estate.

Criminal Law

• Fraud
  This area of our litigation practice is closely linked to the firm’s corporate and securities practice. We represent clients in litigation arising from their business and securities transactions. Our lawyers handle all types of such cases, including suits and arbitrations arising from or involving mergers and acquisitions, contractual relations, intellectual property, broker dealer and investment advisory services, securities fraud or other violations of federal and state securities laws, and the defense of enforcement and disciplinary proceedings brought by governmental agencies.
• Internet Crimes
  Jones & Keller helps its clients with all aspects of information technology, social media and e-commerce transactions ranging from license agreements to technology joint ventures to international strategic alliances. Our lawyers have worked on transactional matters in all areas of Internet law, including Web site development, Web site hosting, software licensing including international software transactions, maintenance and support, outsourced data processing, channel partner arrangements and B2B marketplace transactions. We help our clients develop policies and procedures to manage the risks of online business. We have developed online “click-through” contracts, customer agreements, Web site terms and conditions, privacy policies and antitrust compliance practices.

Business and Corporate Law

• Corporate Law
  We work closely with Jones & Keller’s attorneys in related practice areas, such as Corporate and Securities, to counsel public companies and regulated entities on securities law and other regulatory issues. Together, we help our clients design, implement, and assess compliance programs with the goal of limiting litigation risk and preventing violations of law and corporate policies before they occur. Our collaborative approach and depth of experience have resulted in a proven record of success.
• Mergers and Acquisitions
  Jones & Keller manages sophisticated domestic and international mergers and acquisitions transactions. Whether the transactions are asset or stock, public or private, and regardless of the size of the entities, M&A transactions are complex and require legal finesses and expert negotiating skills for greatest success.
• Business Formation
  In addition to practicing law, lawyers at Jones & Keller have been accountants, presidents, CEO’s, directors and officers with a wide variety of business enterprises. Our business expertise combined with decades of providing legal service give us the perspective to help our clients organize new business entities, establish compensation plans to attract and retain executives, structure founder’s ownership and raise capital.
• Business Disputes
  Jones & Keller is a full-service business law firm with Denver roots and an international reach. We deliver sophisticated advice tailored to individual legal needs.
• Business Transactions
  Attorneys at Jones & Keller have extensive international legal and business experience, providing services to American clients doing business overseas, and international clients doing business in the U.S. and abroad. Our attorneys have extensive experience crafting business transactions in Canada, Europe (particularly the United Kingdom, Sweden and other parts of Western Europe), Australia, Asia, Africa, South America and the countries of the former Soviet Union. Our US inbound legal services make the US border more transparent for foreign companies and investors seeking to do business or who own assets in the US. Our lawyers understand the value of patience, communication and education in the international business process. Multi-cultural business arrangements often require sensitive analysis of a variety of uncommon factors, specific to the cultures involved. Our attorneys work efficiently and seamlessly with their counterparts in foreign nations, as may be necessary, to provide maximum value to our clients.
• Limited Liability Companies
  We advise our clients on choice and formation of a variety of business entities and tax alternatives, including corporations, limited liability companies, partnerships, limited partnerships and professional corporations. We draft and negotiate by-laws, stockholders’ and voting agreements, operating and contribution agreements, and help our clients establish boards, management committees and sub-committees.
• Construction Contracts
  Representation of developer in the drafting and negotiation of purchase and sale agreements, debt and equity financings, operating agreements, construction contracts, leases, easement agreements and covenants for various mixed-use developments.
• Trade Secrets
  Jones & Keller helps prevent liability by making recommendations and preparing transitional documents for terminations, resignations, reductions-in-force, layoffs, executive hiring and terminations, handbooks and policies; and restrictive covenants, including non-competes, non-solicitation, and trade secret protection. We help our clients establish and implement programs and policies to manage the risk of employment actions, develop compensation plans to meet business objectives, and manage outsource and independent contractor relationships. Jones & Keller lawyers have extensive hands-on knowledge of employment issues facing businesses and public sector clients today, derived from their experience in dealing with day-to-day employment issues as general counsel and executive officers of various businesses.
• Intellectual Property
  We provide our clients with legal and contract support necessary to reduce the risks of manufacturing, sales and distribution, domestic and international supply, and delivery of services. Our expertise includes consulting and services agreements, intellectual property licensing and protection, OEM and VAR agreements, outsourced manufacturing (tolling) agreements, warehouse services, freight forwarding and transportation agreements and distributorship agreements. We have expertise in many different industries and areas, including...
• Unfair Competition
• Antitrust

Employment Law

• Workers Compensation
  Healthcare providers and business owners rely on a wide range of insurance products: medical professional liability, physician regulatory liability, cyber liability, employee practice liability, directors and officers liability, fiduciary liability, commercial umbrella liability, workers compensation, plus business-owners and personal policies.
• Wrongful Termination
• Employment Discrimination
  Our attorneys are experienced in assisting doctors and dentists in leaving the practice of medicine and dentistry either at the end of a career or after becoming disabled. We also represent clients in the full range of disputes that can result from the employment relationship – including claims for welfare benefits under ERISA, and employment discrimination claims.
• Employment Contract
  We counsel employers in the prevention, negotiation and litigation of a full range of employment and labor disputes. Clients benefit from a fair and balanced perspective in preparing, reviewing and litigating disputes involving employment agreements covering executive management, employees and independent contractors and restrictive covenants in such agreements, including non-solicit, non-compete and confidential information provisions.
• Employment Litigation
  For more information about how our healthcare lawyers can help you with your employment issues and disputes, please contact Jones & Keller at 303-573-1600.
• Non-compete Agreement
  Our Healthcare attorneys have represented physicians and others involved in disputes over non-compete agreements specific to the Healthcare industry. Our attorneys have worked in in the Labor/Civil Rights Unit of the Colorado Attorney General’s Office and served as co-chair of the Employment Law Section of the Boulder County Bar Association.

Property Law

• Real Estate Litigation
  Our experience in real estate litigation encompasses a full spectrum of matters from conveyances to zoning and land use. We represent clients in landlord and tenant, trespass, adverse possession, easements, licensing, quiet title, foreclosure and other disputes affecting rights in real property. We also represent clients before state, county and municipal bodies whose decisions often pervasively affect our clients’ rights to utilize their real property with maximum flexibility. We also work closely with our probate lawyers when real property interests of our clients are at stake in the course of probate proceedings.
• Construction Litigation
  Jones & Keller attorneys have represented owners, engineers, architects and suppliers in all aspects of construction projects world-wide, from developing bid and RFP documents through the post-construction claims and litigation processes. Read more at Construction Contracting
• Real Estate Transactions
  Jones & Keller attorneys have significant experience representing purchasers, sellers, borrowers, lenders, landlords, tenants, and others in a variety of complex real estate transactions. We help our clients with acquisition, development and construction, and leasing, management, financing, foreclosure, syndication, sale, and transfer of real estate in a wide variety of asset classes, including retail buildings, industrial buildings, office buildings, shopping centers, hotels, resort properties, mixed-use developments, self-storage facilities, senior living developments, condominium projects, and attached and detached residential developments. Our attorneys work closely with each client to understand their objectives and the legal needs of each transaction.
• Eminent Domain
  We represent landowner clients in both conventional eminent domain or direct takings cases and inverse or regulatory takings cases. Jones & Keller attorneys successfully represented the owner of a major municipal solid waste disposal facility in a more than decade long series of trials and appeals in both federal and state court in a regulatory takings case seeking just compensation for a state’s unconstitutional taking of the property.
• Easement
• Land Use and Zoning
• Landlord-Tenant Disputes

Health Law

• Personal Injury
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• Medical Malpractice
  Jones & Keller’s clients include property and casualty, life and health and title insurers and various independent insurance agencies and insurance producers, as well as self-funded plans for medical malpractice and health insurance programs. The firm also provides corporate as well as litigation assistance to business entities and individuals for all types of insurance needs, questions or issues.
• Disability Discrimination
  Jones & Keller has experience in suits involving employment and labor law. We represent clients in the full spectrum of employment related cases, including wrongful discharge, discrimination under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act, age discrimination, and disability discrimination. We also counsel business clients in preventative measures to avoid such claims and draft proactive employee policies. In the field of labor law, we assist employers in resolving disputes arising under the National Labor Relations Act, the Railway Labor Act, the Fair Labor Standards Act, and other laws governing employment relations. We have represented employers in litigation with unions involving both suits for violation of collective bargaining agreements and unfair labor practice proceedings.

Trusts and Estates

• Estate Planning
  Lawyers at Jones & Keller have extensive experience representing business entities and helping clients with their business needs through all stages of the business lifecycle. We help clients realize their dreams by starting and financing a business, help rapidly growing businesses meet their many needs, advise on acquisitions, mergers, debt and equity financing, and assist business people with estate planning, transfer, dissolution and liquidation at the end of the business life.
• Wills
• Trusts
  Establishing and implementing charitable contribution vehicles such as family foundations, charitable trusts, donor advised funds and direct gifts
• Power of Attorney
  We provide personalized strategies and legal instruments for managing, distributing and protecting your assets the way you want in life and after death. Through wills, trusts, powers of attorney, and more, we put in place the legal structures for executing your wishes concerning your property and personal affairs, while minimizing the potential for family disputes or litigation.
• Probate

Finance Law

• Bankruptcy
  We also provide representation in all phases of bankruptcy litigation, including fraudulent conveyance, relief from stay of proceedings, preference and avoidance litigation, valuation hearings, and appeals.
• Foreclosure
  Our attorneys represent purchasers, sellers, borrowers, lenders, landlords, tenants, and others in real estate-related dispute resolution negotiations and litigation.  We handle a wide range of disputes involving breach of contract, easements, foreclosures, receiverships, bankruptcy, and deed-in-lieu transactions, among others.  When workout negotiations are unable to resolve a dispute or salvage a troubled project, Jones & Keller attorneys are fierce and ethical advocates in litigation to achieve optimal outcomes for our clients through trials and appeals.
• Tax Law
  Jones & Keller represents Bankruptcy Trustees, lenders, borrowers, creditors’ committees and asset purchasers in all phases of informal workouts and loan renegotiations as well as general reorganizations and liquidations.  Our creditor clients include numerous banks, oil field supply companies, brokerage firms, freight companies, franchisees, factoring companies and various other industrial and commercial concerns.  Our broad experience in the relationships between bankruptcy, labor, corporate, regulatory, securities and tax law permits us to offer knowledgeable guidance in an increasingly complex and pervasive area of practice.