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Northern Colorado Real Estate Attorney | Greeley Oil & Gas Lawyer

Greeley, Colorado, real estate, business transactions, agricultural law, oil & gas attorney, Daniel Jones’ law practice focuses on real estate transactional matters, including transactions for the purchase and sale of real estate; and oil and gas leasing, surface use and title issues, including oil and gas title curative work. Additionally, Mr. Jones practices in the area of agricultural law and corporate law, including entity formations, handling of complex issues related to limited liability companies and other business entities, and a variety of other business-related transactions work across all of Northern Colorado. Mr. Jones is admitted to practice before all courts in the State of Colorado. Mr. Jones is a member of the Colorado Bar Association, including the Business Section and the Real Estate Section of the Colorado Bar Association, and a member of the Weld County Bar Association. He also is a regular contributor of business- and real-estate-related columns for BizWest, a regional business publication.

Mr. Jones grew up along the Northern Colorado Front Range. After graduating as Salutatorian of his class at Niwot High School, he received his undergraduate degree in Economics from Grinnell College in Grinnell, Iowa, in 1990 and his law degree from the University of Colorado School of Law at Boulder in 1994. Throughout his time at law school, Mr. Jones worked at the Boulder County District Attorney’s Office, serving both as a Law Clerk and a volunteer Victim/Witness Assistant.

Following his admission to the Colorado Bar in 1994, Mr. Jones joined the Weld County District Attorney’s Office in Greeley, where he worked until 1996 as a Deputy District Attorney. Mr. Jones is a graduate of the Colorado State Patrol Academy at Camp George West in Golden, where he graduated ranked at the top of his Class. He also served as a member of the adjunct faculty at the academy from 1998 through 2000, teaching classes such as Introduction to the Criminal Justice System, Roles of Prosecution and Defense Attorneys, Testifying in Court, Sexual Harassment in the Workplace, Civil Liabilities of Instructors, Mock Crime Scene and Mock Trial.

Prior to resuming work as a lawyer in Greeley, Colorado, between 1997 and 2006, Mr. Jones also worked in the business community for Cerebral Palsy of Colorado and ARC Thrift Stores, serving for most of that time as CP of Colorado’s Manager of Donation Operations, where he played an important role in tripling their donation operation’s business. Late in 2006, Mr. Jones returned to the legal community, working with John Mason, Jr., P.C., until he joined Otis, Coan & Stewart, LLC in January 2008 as a business and real estate transactions lawyer. He remained with Otis, Coan & Stewart, which became Otis, Coan & Peters, LLC, later that same year, until joining Coan, Payton & Payne, LLC, in 2013. He was selected for and is a graduate of the 2010-2011 class of Leadership Weld County, a leadership program of the Greeley Chamber of Commerce, and served on the Advisory Board for the Leadership Weld County program for an additional two years until May of 2013.

Mr. Jones serves clients across Greeley and Northern Colorado as a transactions attorney in the areas of agricultural law, real estate, oil & gas and business. Mr. Jones currently lives in Greeley with his wife and pets, and works out of the firm’s Greeley office.