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James M. King

James M. King serves energy and mining exploration and operating companies in transactional and administrative matters relating to acquisitions, leases, sales, joint ventures and limited liability companies. He also has extensive experience with commercial and agricultural real estate transactions.

Mr. King handles construction contracts, loan documents, title and contract litigation, public land acquisitions, exchanges and use authorizations for both natural resources and real estate clients.

Mr. King’s practice has concentrated on all aspects of public land law and energy and mining law, including transactional work related to a wide variety of contractual relationships involving numerous types of minerals.

Mr. King’s practice has also involved litigation before several administrative tribunals and state and federal courts. These cases have concerned the rights of mining claimants and other citizens to use of the public lands, disputes related to mining agreements, and the rights of conflicting claimants to mining property, other rights in real property and water rights, and zoning, land use and subdivision issues.

Mr. King is a member of the American and Colorado Bar Associations. He is an adjunct professor in the Graduate Studies Program in Environmental and Natural Resources Law and Policy at the University of Denver Sturm College of Law. He is also a trustee of the Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Foundation, and served as its president in 2004-05.