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James Ledbetter is the founding member of the Ledbetter Law Firm, PLC. Through his practice, Jim serves and has served as general counsel to hospitals and mental healthcare facilities.  He is a thirty year risk management consultant, recognized by large insurers as a “go to” person for redesigning healthcare risk management programs.  Jim and his firm have saved hospitals tens of millions of dollars in annual premiums, while delivering elevated patient safety.

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Jim also represents a number of mining interests, including oil and gas producers, and professionals such as physicians and nurses.  

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Jim strongly believes that a key to a community’s success is its ability to deliver care to those most in need.  Jim’s career has been devoted to supporting education, healthcare and social services in the communities he and his family have called home.  He is honored to be serving as a founding member of the Yavapai Justice and Mental Health Coalition, as mental health needs have touched so many families throughout Arizona.  

 

Jim is active within a number of community agencies throughout Arizona. He was elected to the Mingus Union High School District Board in 2006, where he served for twelve years, and he has served on the Boards of the Arizona Hospital Association, Northern Arizona Healthcare, the Verde Valley Medical Center, Flagstaff Medical Center and Sedona Medical Center. He was Chairman of the Board of Directors for the Verde Valley and Sedona Medical Centers, and has and continues to serve on hospital foundation boards.  He is honored to have recently joined the Copper Queen Community Hospital Foundation Board.

 

Jim was also a founding Director for the Boys and Girls Club of Central Cottonwood. He has served as a Board Member for United Way for Northern Arizona and has provided volunteer legal services to a number of agencies, including the Sedona Center for the Arts, the Women's Sanctuary of Cottonwood, Jazz On The Rocks, the Old Town Mission and multiple animal rescue organizations.

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With the Old Town Mission, Jim established a pro bono legal clinic which has run for decades, and he obtained certification and worked to secure State and Federal licensures to operate a free medical clinic for the homeless and working poor.

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Jim has been appointed by Arizona Governors to serve on education, liability and healthcare task forces. He is also a frequent lecturer for Bar organizations on the topics of healthcare law, ethics, corporate governance and tort reform.

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As a result of his appointment by former Arizona Governor Napolitano to the Board of the Arizona Department of Liquor Licenses and Controls and his subsequent election as its Chairman, Jim obtained first-hand experience in operations of large State agencies, as well as the litigation of administrative appeals. He applies this experience to the Firm's administrative adjudication practice, particularly as to claims brought against licensed professionals.

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Jim has also published articles in the area of hospital-liability law, serves as a lecturer for healthcare organizations and has served on the Board of Directors for the Arizona Association of Defense Counsel.

Jim has also been appointed to Congressional health care advisory committees, which reviewed the application, implementation and impact of healthcare reform on physicians and hospitals. 

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Jim is also recognized by his colleagues and has been selected as one of Arizona’s Finest Lawyers, one of the top two hundred lawyers in all disciplines in the State.