James Belcher

Practice Areas

Banking and Finance

Business Organizations

Creditors’ Rights & Bankruptcy

Energy & Minerals Projects & Transactions

Oil and Gas

Real Estate

Career

James R. (Jim) Belcher is Of Counsel in the firm’s Casper office. His practice areas include energy & natural resources, bankruptcy & creditor/debtor rights, banking, and real estate transactions. After a 13-year career as a commercial banker, Jim attended law school and began practicing law in 1988 in Wyoming.

In his financial practice, Jim represents lenders in large commercial and real estate financing transactions, judicial and non-judicial real estate foreclosures, collection litigation, state and federal receiverships and bankruptcy matters. Jim represents commercial banks, large and small, in all facets of banking and is legal counsel for the Wyoming Bankers Association.

Jim represents both lenders and borrowers by rendering financing opinions for energy, real estate and business financings of all types, including equipment leasing, oil and gas, coal, real estate and wind power projects. He assists corporate, partnership and LLC clients with mergers, acquisitions and reorganizations.

Professional Memberships

Wyoming State Bar Association

American Bar Association

Ewing T. Kerr American Inns of Court, Member

Wyoming Bar Foundation, Past Board Member and President

American College of Mortgage Attorneys, Fellow

Equal Justice Wyoming Foundation, Board Member