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What Is a Title Dispute and How Can You Resolve One in 2025?
Buying or selling real estate is a major financial transaction that depends on a clear and undisputed title. A title serves as legal proof of property ownership, and any challenges to it can cause delays, financial losses, or even lawsuits. In Denver, Colorado, property owners must be aware of the potential issues that can arise and understand their legal options when disputes occur. Title disputes can stem from clerical mistakes, competing ownership claims, unresolved liens, or fraudulent activity. Fortunately, [...]
New firm name, same quality legal counsel and representation
LOHF SHAIMAN JACOBS HYMAN & FEIGER PC, Denver’s business & employment attorneys announced that the firm will begin operating under a new name and will be known as LOHF SHAIMAN JACOBS PC effective immediately. This rebranding reflects both the evolution of the firm as well as its vision for the future. Lohf Shaiman Jacobs is very excited about the firm’s new focus solely on national and international corporation and small-business owners.
Insurer To Pay $20.5M To End EEOC Race, Sex Bias Suit
Insurer To Pay $20.5M To End EEOC Race, Sex Bias Suit by Braden Campbell, Senior Reporter, Law360.com See EEOC Press Release Here Jackson National Life Insurance Company has agreed to pay $20.5 million to end a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission suit alleging black female workers were underpaid, sexually harassed and called “street walkers," the agency said Thursday. The workplace bias watchdog's announcement comes two days after District of Colorado Judge Philip Brimmer approved a consent decree between the [...]
Grand Junction Weapons Manufacturer CAPCO To Pay Over $1 Million
Lohf Shaiman attorney Justin M. Plaskov was the lead council and filed this case on behalf of their client and U.S. Government. In addition to recovering $235,000 from the U.S. Government as the person who brought the lawsuit on behalf of the United States, Mr. Cole received $250,000 to settle his employment retaliation claims, for a total recovery of $485,000. To learn more you can read about the case in the New York Times, Washington Post, Denver Post or read [...]
Is Crowdfunding Legal in Colorado?
Is Crowdfunding Legal in Colorado? For the purposes of this blog, we’ll refer to crowdfunding as the “equity fundraising” used to by entrepreneurs, inventors, and those trying to start up a business or enterprise of their own. There are actually a few well-established, rewards-based websites, or intermediaries as they are called, that have completed the necessary documentation to serve as online crowdfunding sites in Colorado that folks can use to raise capital. On April 13, 2015, Gov. John Hickenlooper signed [...]
Moving a HQ Can Be Legal and Logistical Adventure
Moving a HQ Can Be Legal and Logistical Adventure Corporations pull up stakes and move their headquarters all the time for many different reasons. The latest case in point in Denver appears to be a local’s favorite: Chipolte. After branching out nation-wide for 25 years, the burrito chain announced in May that it was moving from Denver to Newport Beach, CA. Chipolte’s founder Steve Ells started his company out in a former Dolly Madison building, located at 1644 E. Evens [...]
Landlord of Pot Tech Company Wins Settlement for Unpaid Rent
Landlord of Pot Tech Company Wins Settlement for Unpaid Rent Even those in a cash-heavy industry can hit bottom, or nearly hit bottom. One of Denver’s pot pioneers in the tech sector, MassRoots, Inc., has gone through a rough patch to say the least over the last year. The company apparently got in arrears on its commercial rent space, underperformed sending its stock market share prices plummeting, and sacked its founder and CEO. The Facts About the Struggling Cannabis Tech [...]
How to Successfully Separate from a Bad Business Partner
It’s happens to the best of friends, general acquaintances, as well as family members. So, you’ve come up with a harebrained scheme or something that’s a genuinely good business concept, but after putting it all together and operating for a while, the ownership partners fall out of good graces with one another other. Don’t take our word for it. The average startup company breaks up at a rate somewhere between 20 to 30 percent higher than married people divorce at, [...]
A Modest Proposal: The Rule 3(a) Waiver Agreement
A Modest Proposal: The Rule 3(a) Waiver Agreement by Stephen E. Kapnik and Alan S. Thompson Early in a case, conversations between opposing counsel regularly involve concerns about the CRCP 16 front-loaded case management obligations and case acceleration pressures on the justice system and the case itself, stemming, in part, from Chief Justice Directive 08-05.1 This article suggests using a waiver agreement under CRCP 3(a) as a way to manage case deadlines and obligations outside of [...]
Firm News: Lohf Shaiman Jacobs PC Files Federal Racial Discrimination Suit against Jackson National Life Insurance Co.
In an ongoing effort to champion and protect workers’ rights, the discrimination attorneys at Lohf Shaiman Jacobs PC have recently filed a case against Jackson National Life Insurance Company. This federal case includes seven plaintiffs who allege a pattern of racial discrimination against African-American employees, including adverse treatment regarding pay, promotions, training and assigned job territories. Our lawyers are fighting for justice, as well as back pay, future lost wages and punitive damages, on behalf of these plaintiffs. Read Article
Employee Rights and Social Media
Employee Rights and Social Media by Lynn D. Feiger and Stephen E. Kapnik As the use of social media increases, so does its perceived importance to employers as a source of information about their employees. This article addresses legal remedies available to employees to protect their privacy and private information posted online and in social media. According to a recent survey by the Pew Research Center, nearly half of all adult Internet users in the United States [...]
NEWS: Lohf Shaiman Jacobs PC Expands Clients’ Leverage
NEWS: Lohf Shaiman Jacobs PC Expands Clients’ Leverage NEWS RELEASE: January 23, 2013 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: Anita Culligan Lohf Shaiman Jacobs PC | 303.753.9000 (Denver) January 23 –Lohf Shaiman Jacobs PC has joined the Legal Netlink Alliance. The Legal Netlink Alliance offers clients access to other first class law firms in 40 countries. Member firms of the global alliance are midsized, general practice, independent law firms and are carefully selected for membership because they represent a [...]
MEET THE TEAM
Lohf Shaiman Jacobs PC attorneys are nationally recognized for their capacity to apply creative, intelligent and successful strategies to resolve issues across a broad range of legal areas.
Mr. Thompson has more than 25 years of experience practicing commercial litigation, employment law, business, real estate transactions, technology, e-commerce and intellectual property. His professional memberships include the Colorado, Adams & Broomfield Bar Associations.
Since 1973, Mr. Jacobs has been engaged in the general practice of law, focusing on commercial litigation, real estate, estate planning, tax planning, and mergers and acquisitions. He recently added mediation to his practice areas. He represents companies, investors, estates, & individuals.
Mr. Ebner focuses on oil & gas transactional work & some mining work. He has been honored by Super Lawyers (oil and gas law) from 2007-2016. His professional memberships include the Assn. of International Petroleum Negotiators & the Denver Assn. of Oil & Gas Title Lawyers.
Mr. Kapnik has more than 35 years of trial and appellate experience in criminal, civil and matrimonial disputes, as well as in complex litigation. He has represented clients before all state and federal courts in Colorado. He has also represented clients in Washington, D.C.
