$ 425-450 per hour
About Douglas
Biography
Sparkman + Foote LLP is a small firm of highly experienced business lawyers focused on achieving clients' objectives with creative and practical solutions. We focus our practice on entrepreneurs, small and medium-sized businesses and their owners and managers in all aspects of business organization, domestic and international business transactions, contracts, debt and equity financing, employment law, tax planning, real estate, corporate governance, intellectual property management, trademarks, and general business law.
I have served as CEO, COO and CFO of companies in the medical device, environmental, and engineering and consulting fields. My representation and advice reflect an experience-based understanding of the effects of legal issues in real-world business situations and practical advice to meet those situations.
In addition to advising businesses, I also counsel lawyers, law firms, and in-house legal departments on matters of legal ethics and professional responsibility.
Before returning to Colorado, I lived in Connecticut and worked there and in New York City, and lived and worked in Australia and Hong Kong. My wife and I enjoy the privilege of living in Colorado and take advantage of the wonderful skiing, snowshoeing, hiking and sailing [yes, sailing - Lake Dillon, at 9,000+ feet, is on the published list of 50 places in the world to sail before you die!] in the beautiful Colorado mountains.
My great pleasures in life come from my family, helping my clients understand legal matters in plain English and achieve practical solutions, assisting other lawyers to practice law ethically, and helping direct the non-profit HealthTeamWorks (), focused on improving the efficiency and effectiveness of healthcare, both in Colorado and nationally.
Practice Areas
5
Practice Areas
Business
35%
53 years
Contracts and Agreements
25%
53 years
Limited Liability Company (LLC)
20%
53 years
Corporate and Incorporation
10%
53 years
Fees and Rates
Cost
Hourly Rates
Payment Methods
- Check
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Licensed in Colorado for 57 years
State: Colorado
Acquired: 1968
No misconduct found
Licensed in Connecticut for 47 years
State: Connecticut
Acquired: 1978
No misconduct found
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Sparkman + Foote LLP
602 Park Point Drive, Ste. 230, Golden, CO, 80401
Sparkman + Foote LLP
370 Darby Drive, Silverthorne, CO, 80498
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Douglas D Foote's Reviews
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Posted by Eric Howard silverstein | October 12, 2022 | Hired Attorney
This review is from a person who hired this attorney.
Fertility specialist
Will defend you through thick or thin as long as you can pay his fees. No job is too big and he doesn't care what sick acts you have done. For the right amount of money he will defend you
Douglas Foote
Replied last October 12, 2022Dear Eric, I am very sorry you had a bad experience with your lawyer, but I am afraid you have posted this review for the wrong lawyer. I practice solely business law and have never spoken with or represented you. I respectfully request you withdraw this review. Thank you.
Posted by Joan | May 14, 2010
Great Lawyer
Doug Foote is an amazing attorney and a joy to work with. He is clear, straightforward, has great integrity and can explain legalese so that you can actually understand it. Even a small client is treated with great respect, promptness, courtesy and legal work that is above and beyond what was expec...
Posted by Dan Goldberger, CEO | April 20, 2010
Great Partner in the Growth of Our Small Business
Doug has been a great asset to our company over many years. His broad legal and business perspective gives him excellent insight into challenges facing a small company. As a result, he provides legally and financially sound business solutions. Doug is thorough and efficient and is a true partner in ...
Douglas D Foote's Lawyer Endorsements
"The answers of Mr. Foote are consistently accurate, analytic, and customized to the needs of the Avvo askers. In his most recent answer which I reviewed he most helpfully provided a link for the Asker to proceed on his/her precise issue. These are exactly the qualities that every client would look for when hiring an attorney."
"An extremely talented and well respected attorney in the legal community, I wholeheartedly recommend him to anyone looking for a lawyer who knows the law and truly cares about protecting the rights of his clients and getting them the most favorable result possible."
"I highly recommend Doug Foote. He abides by the highest professional and ethical standards, while maintaining a common sense approach to solving problems and giving his clients practical legal advice. He avoids legal mumbo-jumbo and provides solid advice that clients can actually put to use."
"Doug is an excellent lawyer who is thorough , careful and very ethical . I would not hesitate to recommend Doug ."
"I endorse this lawyer's work. I have had occasions to work with Doug on Ethics matters through the Colorado Bar Association and business transactions both as co-counsel and as an adversary and have found Doug to be honest, highly competent and professional in all of his dealings. Doug is a thoughtful, effective, efficient, and ethical attorney."
"I recommmend Doug highly in business matters. He has extensive experience, great judgment, and unquestionable ethics and integrity."
"I endorse this lawyer's work. From my experience he is a very thoughtfull and ethical lawyer with the best interests of his clients in the fore front of his representation and advice."
"I heartily endorse Doug Foote's work and character. I have worked closely with Doug on the CBA Ethics Committee since 1993, including during 1998-1999, when Doug chaired that committee and I served as his vice-chair. Doug is exceedingly smart, thoughtful, and pragmatic when it comes to resolving legal issues. He is reliable and hard-working; has great integrity; and cares deeply about the legal profession, his clients, and the practicing bar. I would not hesitate to entrust my own legal affairs to Doug."
"Doug is an excellent lawyer. He combines at the highest levels expertise and experience, dedication and adherence to the highest standards and best practices in the profession. He also has the advantage of having had business experience in a number of industries. As such, he is "valued added" because he easily grasps the business objectives and goals that the client wants to achieve. Morever, he tailors his legal advice with that in mind. I recommend Doug to any client without any reservation whatsoever. Beyond the pure professional, I want to point out that Doug is a gentleman in the classic sense and a man or unquestionable integrity."
"I endorse this lawyer's work based on my 20 years of working with Doug Foote as members of the Colorado Ethics Committee."
Lori Hulbert
Probate lawyer
Cecil Morris
Lawsuits and disputes lawyer
Experience
Honors
2022
Av Rating (Highest Legal Ability and Ethical Standards), Martindale-Hubbell Peer Review Ratings 1999-Present
Work Experience
2010 - Present
Managing Partner, Sparkman + Foote LLP
1998 - 2009
General Counsel (1998-2009); CFO (1998-2005), Sound Surgical Technologies LLC
1996 - 2009
, Douglas D. Foote, Attorney at Law
1992 - 1996
President and COO; General Counsel, Scaltech Inc.
1990 - 1993
CEO; General Counsel, Pincock Allen & Holt, Inc.
1987 - 1989
Vice President, General Counsel & Secretary, Bond International Gold, Inc.
1975 - 1986
Division Vice President & General Counsel, AMAX Inc.
Associations
2008 - Present
Health TeamWorks non-profit organizationDirector and Treasurer
1987 - Present
Colorado Bar Association, Ethics CommitteeChair, 1998-99
American Bar Association
Colorado Association of Corporate Counsel
Colorado Bar Association
Fellow, Colorado Bar Foundation
American Arbitration Association
Member, National Panel, Commercial Arbitration
American Society for Pharmacy Law
Colorado Bar Association
Chair, Joint Task Force on Multidisciplinary Practice
Denver Bar Association
Harvard Business School Club of Colorado
Education
N/A
King's College University of London Faculty of Law
LL.M.
N/A
University of Colorado School of Law
J.D.
N/A
University of Denver
B.S.B.A. summa cum laude
N/A
Harvard Business School
Advanced Management Program
Speaking Engagements
2014
Colorado Bar Association
Doug Foote to Present “Preventing Legal Malpractice: Transactional Practice”
N/A
Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Institute
Obligations and Consequences of Ore Reserve Disclosures - Your Client and the SEC
Publications
N/A
Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Institute Annual Proceedings
Obligations and Consequences of Ore Reserve Disclosures - Your Client and the SEC
Languages
English
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We have a family-owned restaurant that we are 67 % owners of. Our son is 33 % owner. he has taken control of all aspects.
01 Feb 2024
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What is considered a “competitive activity” to my current position? I cannot engage in a competitive activity for 1 year
06 Feb 2023