Bankruptcy Judge Turns Delaware LLC Law on its Head: A Lesson in LLC Management and the Risk of Member Insolvency
By Daniel W. Glasser on January 16, 2024. Introduction It is no secret that Bankruptcy can turn everything we know about the law on its head. And when that happens in the realm of limited liability company (“LLC”) governance, investors, ...
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Chipman Glasser Obtains Complete Defense Verdict in Complex Fraud and Breach of Contract Litigation
By Daniel W. Glasser on August 24, 2023. On June 27, 2023, Chipman Glasser, LLC obtained a complete defense verdict in a complex commercial litigation matter tried in the Denver District Court. The plaintiffs asserted more than $12 million in ...
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Ownership Standoffs: Can Courts Invoke “Equity” To Accommodate a Buyout? Or Should Legislatures Provide a Solution?
By Jennifer M. Osgood, Esq. on May 06, 2022. Traditionally, courts tasked with resolving irreconcilable differences between owners of a Limited Liability Company (“LLC”) had one primary tool available: judicial dissolution. Changes to the LLC laws in several states, however, ...
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Joint Venture Crimes and Punishment: One Court’s View
By Daniel W. Glasser on March 24, 2022. For litigators involved in limited liability company disputes, some legal issues are perennial. Chief among them is the question of whether members and managers owe fiduciary duties either to each other or to ...
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Chipman Glasser Founding Partners among Best Lawyers in America
Chipman Glasser is proud to share that our founding partners, David Chipman and Daniel Glasser are listed in The Best Lawyers in America® 2022 in the areas of Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights/Insolvency and Reorganization Law, Construction Law, Litigation of ...
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Chipman Glasser Obtains a Reversal of a Flawed Statute of Limitations Order
By David Chipman on February 10, 2021. In an opinion issued on Thursday, January 21, 2021, the Colorado Court of Appeals reversed a trial court order that had been entered against four Chipman Glasser clients. The firm’s clients allege that, ...
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My Business Partner Locked Me Out, What Now? Five Issues That Require Your Immediate Attention
By Jennifer Osgood and Daniel W. Glasser on January 12, 2021. Let’s say that you and a family member or close friend decide to start a business. You take the necessary steps to form the company. You sit down with ...
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Colorado District Court Affirms Post-Judgment Collection Activity While Motions Are Pending
Chipman Glasser, LLC recently represented a company in a non-compete and contractual interference litigation against former employees. At the conclusion of a five-day bench trial, the court entered judgment in the company’s favor and against the former employees. Although the ...
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Chipman Glasser Founders Listed in Best Lawyers in America
Chipman Glasser is pleased to announce that its firm founders, David Chipman and Daniel Glasser, were named to the 2021 Best Lawyers in America listing. Chipman and Glasser were recognized in Construction Law, Real Estate Law, Litigation-Construction, Litigation Real Estate, ...
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Chipman Glasser Obtains Near-Complete Defense Verdict In Commercial Dispute
Attorney John M. Bowlin obtained a court ruling in favor of a Chipman Glasser client after a bench trial. The plaintiff in the case had sought damages exceeding $1 million on theories of fraud, civil theft, and breach of contract ...
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Both Managers and Members of an Arizona LLC May Owe a Fiduciary Duty to the LLC
The question of whether managers and/or members of an LLC owe fiduciary duties to the LLC and/or other members of the LLC varies greatly from state to state. Unlike Colorado’s LLC Act, Arizona’s LLC Act does not expressly impose any ...
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Chipman Glasser is pleased to welcome Mark T. Barnes
Mark Barnes joined Chipman Glasser, LLC on June 3. Mr. Barnes has practiced law in Colorado for nearly three decades. Most recently, he served as the Vice President of Litigation and Assistant General Counsel at Vail Resorts, Inc. And before ...
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Daniel W. Glasser Elected the President of the Colorado – Denver chapter of INBLF, International Network of Boutique and Independent Law Firms
DENVER, CO. – May 15, 2019 – The law firm of Chipman Glasser, LLC is proud to announce that Daniel W. Glasser has been elected President of the Colorado – Denver chapter of the International Network of Boutique and Independent ...
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Colorado Supreme Court Holds Economic Loss Rule Does Not Bar Civil Theft
DENVER, CO. – May 7, 2019 – Colorado Supreme Court Holds Economic Loss Rule Does Not Bar Civil Theft In a much-anticipated ruling, the Colorado Supreme Court yesterday settled a split among divisions of the Colorado Court of Appeals over ...
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Is Delaware Changing the Way it Looks at Rule 12(b)(6) Challenges in Business Cases?
DENVER, CO. – May 1, 2019 – Is Delaware changing the way it looks at Rule 12(b)(6) challenges in business cases? Recently, the Delaware Supreme Court has indicated a departure from years of Rule 12(b)(6) jurisprudence. Delaware Supreme Court Rule ...
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Chipman Glasser Obtains Victory in Colorado Court of Appeals
DENVER, CO. – April 25, 2019 – The law firm of Chipman Glasser, LLC obtains Victory in Colorado Court of Appeals In a published decision Thursday, the Colorado Court of Appeals reversed a summary judgment that had been entered against ...
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Chipman Glasser Adds Litigator Jennifer S. Senior
Denver, Colorado – April 15, 2019 – Chipman Glasser, LLC is pleased to announce that Jennifer S. Senior has joined our team. Jennifer Senior joined Chipman Glasser, LLC on April 15. She was previously a partner with the law firm ...
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Five Chipman Glasser Attorneys Recognized as Super Lawyers
Five attorneys from Chipman Glasser have been named to the 2019 Colorado Super Lawyers list. No more than five percent of the lawyers in Colorado are selected by Super Lawyers. Yet more than eighty percent of the lawyers at Chipman ...
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John M. Bowlin selected for membership as a Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals CJA Panel Attorney
DENVER, CO. – Jan. 1, 2019 – The law firm of Chipman Glasser, LLC is proud to announce that John M. Bowlin was selected for membership as a Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals Criminal Justice Act Panel Attorney. “It is ...
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