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James L. Young, Jr. Practice Areas: Jim's practice includes small business concerns, estate planning, wills and trusts, commercial finance, and real estate. Jim joined the firm in 1991. Education: Jim is a native of Shelton, Connecticut, a 1975 graduate of Southern Connecticut State University and a 1981 graduate of the Lewis and Clark Law School in Portland, Oregon. Experience and Law Related Activities: Jim began his legal career in 1981 as Assistant General Counsel to the Oregon Bank, where he appeared in state and bankruptcy courts upon a wide diversity of collection and commercial finance related matters, including Chapter 11 cases. After two years in the legal department, Jim took a position in the Trust Department of the Oregon Bank, where he was a personal trust officer for two years and where he was responsible for administration of personal trusts and settlement of estates. He then took a position with the legal department of First Interstate Bank of Oregon, N.A., as counsel to the commercial and corporate lending department and documented substantial and varied loan facilities, including asset based and unsecured facilities, ESOP loans, participations, syndications, and letters of credit. Together with other bank officers, Jim authored a course book and taught graded classes at First Interstate Bank, as a training vehicle for the bank's commercial lenders. Since returning to his native of State of Connecticut in 1987, Jim has been entrusted by many institutions and businesses to represent their interests in business dealings, complex credit arrangements and financings and real estate transactions, and in achieving desirable resolutions to troubled credits and business disputes. He also works with clients to achieve their estate planning goals. Jim is a member of the Probate and Estate Planning, Elder Law, Business Law, Commercial Law and Bankruptcy Sections, of the Connecticut Bar Association. Community Involvement: Jim resides in Mystic, and is a past member of the Zoning Board of Appeals of the Town of Groton (1995 - 2000), is past Chairman of the Economic Development Commission of the Town of Groton, is past Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Southeastern Connecticut Chamber of Commerce, Inc., and is a member of the Board of Directors of United Cerebral Palsy of Eastern Connecticut. |
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