Jim Flynn

Jim Flynn grew up in Omaha, Nebraska; attended Dartmouth College on a National Merit Scholarship, majoring in French; and went on to earn a law degree from Stanford Law School. In between the start and finish of law school, Jim served as an officer in the United States Navy, assigned to a branch of the Navy that specialized in electronic espionage and secure communications, and where he learned Mandarin Chinese. Jim practiced law in Colorado Springs for forty years, representing banks and other...See more

Jim Flynn grew up in Omaha, Nebraska; attended Dartmouth College on a National Merit Scholarship, majoring in French; and went on to earn a law degree from Stanford Law School. In between the start and finish of law school, Jim served as an officer in the United States Navy, assigned to a branch of the Navy that specialized in electronic espionage and secure communications, and where he learned Mandarin Chinese. Jim practiced law in Colorado Springs for forty years, representing banks and other clients in the financial services industry and litigating commercial disputes. Jim lives in Colorado Springs with wife Anne Marie. In addition to writing the weekly Money & the Law column for The Gazette for twenty-five years, Jim has written three lawyer-related novels -- Overdraft, about a cyber attack on the U.S. banking system; Where There's No Will, about a multi-million dollar will contest in rural Gunnison County, Colorado, resulting from a missing will; and Fraudulent Transfers, about a counterfeit cashier's check fraud and a related money laundering enterprise. He has also written a non-fiction book about the origin of Colorado place names -- A Compendium of Curious Colorado Place Names. Whenever he can, Jim stalks trout in the rivers and high mountain lakes of Colorado with his fly rod, although the fish rarely feel threatened. See less