Mr. James H. Cossitt

James H. Cossitt is Of Counsel with Gribble, Boles, Stewart & Witosky in Des Moines, Iowa, and maintains statewide practices in Iowa and Montana limited to bankruptcy & workouts, insolvency, re-organization, debtor/creditor law, and business and commercial litigation. Over the last 35+ years, he has served as a bankruptcy attorney with the FDIC and as a chapter 7 panel trustee, a chapter 11 trustee, counsel to numerous trustees and business and consumer debtors, and as an expert witness. Mr. Cossitt is admitted to practice in the state and federal courts in Iowa and Montana and is Board Certified by the ABC in both Business (2005) and Consumer (1995) Bankruptcy Law. He supervised the publication of the ?Working Paper: Best Practices for Debtors? Attorneys,? 64 Bus. Law 79 (2008), which was a follow-up to his involvement on another project, ?Attorney liability under section 707(b)(4) of the Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act of 2005,? 61 Bus. Law. 697 (2006).From 2011-13, Mr. Cossitt served on the ABI Presidential Task Force on Uniform Ethics Standards forBankruptcy Practice. He chaired ABI?s Consumer Bankruptcy Committee and served on the task force that drafted the ?ABI National Ethics Task Force Report.? A frequent speaker to professional and trade groups on bankruptcy and related topics, Mr. Cossitt has consulted with the Slovak Parliament and research institutes in Bratislava, Slovakia, as a member of USAID assistance program to draft a new bankruptcy law. He also served as an invited lecturer at a Russian Bankruptcy School, held in Ames, Iowa. Mr. Cossitt received his B.A. with distinction in 1982 from Iowa State University and his J.D. in1986 from the University of Iowa College of Law.