Klancke & Cook, Attorneys at Law, join growing East Denver LIVING WELL Magazine
Jill Klancke, J.D.
Jill completed her undergraduate work at the University of Minnesota, with a degree in Physical Anthropology. She graduated from Denver University School of Law in 1982, where she received her Juris Doctorate. She has focused primarily on real estate law. Her career began in law school where she clerked for a real estate law firm in Boulder, CO. In 1987, Jill and her husband, David Cook, formed the law firm of KLANCKE & COOK.
Jill currently serves as Managing Partner and real estate attorney for Klancke & Cook. Jill has been active in Business and Professional Women (awarded Young Careerist), DTC Women’s Leads Club (Director), and her home church. Jill has served as an instructor at Aurora Community College, Arapahoe Community College, and Denver Paralegal Institute. She also has a long history of public speaking on various topics and is a member of the Colorado Bar Association.
David M. Cook, JD, LLM
David began practicing law in Missouri in 1974 after graduating from Washington University in St. Louis. A few years into his practice, David returned to Washington University and obtained a Masters of Law in Tax.
In 1982 he moved to Paonia, Colorado where he was the owner and publisher of The North Fork Times, a local newspaper in Delta County. He also started practicing law in Colorado during this time. David later moved to Denver. After establishing the tax department of a mid size law firm, he opened Klancke & Cook Attorneys at Law with his wife, Jill.
David is active with a number of local non-profit and charitable organizations. He currently serves on the national board of directors for Bethesda Lutheran Communities, which operates group homes and provides assistance for the developmentally disabled. David is also an instructor at Arapahoe Community College’s adult education program and speaks throughout the front range on estate planning/family relationship issues.
David is close to finishing his first book titled Games Lawyers Play and has published a small work titled 52 Legal Tips You Can’t Live Without.
