James D. Runzheimer
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Admitted:
1977: Massachusetts
1979: U.S. District Court, District of Massachusetts; U.S. Court of Appeals, First Circuit; and U.S. Tax Court
1980: Texas; U.S. District Court, Northern District of Texas; and U.S. District Court, Northern District of California
Law School: New England School of Law, J.D.
Member: Tarrant County Bar Association (Member, Energy Section), State Bar of Texas
Biography: Recipient, American Jurisprudence Award, Business Planning, 1977. Certified Public Accountant, Texas, 1980–. Author/Speaker: “Document Retention,” November 21, 2002; “Texas Medicaid Estate Recovery,” May 20, 2004; “Legal, Tax, and Financial Aspects of Professional Sports Facilities,” October 21, 2004; “Mental Capacity, Incompetency, and Disability: Representing the Elderly in a Murky World of Unknowns,” November 18, 2004; “Document Retention After Arthur Andersen, Bankruptcy Reform, And Homeland Security,” September 15, 2005; “The New Texas Business Organizations Code,” March 16, 2006, Continuing Professional Education Courses, Arlington Association of Certified Public Accountants, President and Director, 2008–2009. Supervising Tax Specialist, Coopers & Lybrand, CPAs, Boston, Massachusetts, 1977–1979. Co-founder, President and Director, 1983–1995, Lecturer and Consultant, U.S. Small Business Administration, 1984–. Metro Technology Development Council, Inc. Director, Center For Computer Assistance for The Disabled, Arlington, Texas, 1983–1986. Member, 1994–, Board of Directors, and Treasurer, 2002–present, North Central Texas Interlink, North Texas Commission. Named one of Tarrant County’s top lawyers in area of Tax, Fort Worth, Texas magazine, December 2005 ed. Member, Editorial Advisory Board, Texas Small-Firm Practice Tools by Cindy Stormer, published by James Publishing, Inc., 2006. Lecturer, Business Law, University of Texas–Arlington, Summer and Fall 1981. Member: American Institute of Certified Public Accountants; Texas Society of Certified Public Accountants; Mid Cities/Arlington Association of Certified Public Accountants
Born: Marshfield, Wisconsin
Military Service: U.S. Army, 1967–1971; Captain, Infantry Airborne Special Forces; Specialist, Special Atomic Demolitions Munitions, U.S. Army School Europe; Graduate, Infantry Officer Candidate and Airborne Schools, Unconventional Warfare School, and Defense Language Institute Turkish; Airborne qualified, Royal Hellenic Raiding Forces Greece; Honorable Discharge
Cases:Hewlett-Packard Co. v. Human Performance Measurement, Inc.; 23 USPQ 2d 1390, June 25, 1992; Matter of Human Performance Measurement, Inc., Employer, on behalf of Tony Wah-Tung Wong, Alien; No. 89-INA-269, Board of Alien Labor Certification Appeals; Oct. 25, 1991
Community Service: Co-founder, President and Director, 1983–1995, Metro Technology Development Council, Inc. Director, Center For Computer Assistance for The Disabled, Arlington, Texas, 1983–1986. Member, 1994–, Board of Directors, and Treasurer, 2002–present, North Central Texas Interlink, North Texas Commission
Named one of Tarrant County’s top lawyers in area of Tax, Fort Worth, Texas magazine, December 2005 ed. Member, Editorial Advisory Board, Texas Small-Firm Practice Tools by Cindy Stormer, published by James Publishing, Inc., 2006. Lecturer, Business Law, University of Texas–Arlington, Summer and Fall 1981
Consultant and lecturer, U.S. Small Business Administration, SCORE/ACE Program, 1984–present