Walter Slatkin

Walter (“Bud”) Slatkin has been practicing law for more than 40 years. For more than 20 years, his practice has emphasized real estate and business practice. Mr. Slatkin is a Colorado native. He attended Denver Public Schools and the University of Redlands in California, and received a B.A. and J.D. from the University of Colorado. Mr. Slatkin is admitted to practice before the Colorado Supreme Court, the U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado, and the U.S. Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals. While Mr. Slatkin primarily has a transactional practice now, his early years were spent in the courtroom. In Russell v. First American Mortgage Co., he successfully established the duty and liability of the lender with regard to making representations to a borrower concerning a loan commitment. In Coale v. Dow Chemical Co., he won a $1 million judgment on behalf of the owners of a prize bull that was sterilized by a mislabeled insecticide, the facts of the case being used in an episode of L.A. Law. Mr. Slatkin’s present practice involves the representation of buyers, sellers, developers, and lenders with regard to real estate and the representation of business and corporate clients involved in real estate and other business activities, including computer software and oil and gas exploration. Recently, much of his time has been spent with resolving conflicts between family members and owners of property and commercial entities. Mr. Slatkin’s practice extends beyond Colorado and includes multi-national corporations. He developed the documents for the first condominium conversion project in Denver and has been involved in drafting complex legal documents, including timber sales agreements involving thousands of acres of timber; the acquisition through foreclosure for a lender of a hotel in Aspen, then the sale of the hotel, together with the sale of an office building in Los Angeles; and a tax-free exchange involving an elder-care campus in Arizona and Colorado and multiple commercial properties in Colorado. Mr. Slatkin is active in the Denver and Colorado bar associations, being the past chair of the Law Office Management Committee and a member of the Legal Fee Arbitration Committee. He was also chair of the University of Denver Institute for Interfaith Studies, president of a statewide Jewish student campus support organization, and board member of numerous community organizations. Mr. Slatkin is married and has four children, all of whom provide his most important challenges. 11/17