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osh Fine, a Harvard Law graduate and former president of local developer Focus Property Group, has launched Kadima Law in Denver. The new law firm provides "fractional in-house counsel" to real estate players, offering services such as transaction assistance, lease negotiations, and development support on a monthly or project basis.

    "We don't know anybody else that's doing this in commercial real estate," said Fine, 49. He is teaming up with two other Denver lawyers living in Israel - Hirsch Neustein, a former Brownstein lawyer, and Brent Eisen, who used to work in the Denver City Attorney's Office.

    The trio at Kadima aims to provide comprehensive support for clients, handling everything from purchasing land or buildings to leasing or selling properties. "Soup to nuts," Fine explained. The business has its Denver office in the Enterprise Coworking space at 3000 Lawrence St. in RiNo, a building that Fine helped redevelop with his former firm.

    Fine moved to Israel shortly before the pandemic and started Kadima after leaving Focus as president in 2022. He met partners Neustein and Eisen through Denver's Jewish community, and they shared their frustrations with the state of the legal world in real estate. They discussed how hourly billing can be unpredictable and lead to ballooning costs.

    In its first few weeks of operations, Kadima has already picked up a few clients from their real estate network. "Had a firm like ours existed where I could have hired a fractional in-house counsel to be our on-call attorneys for subscription – I would have jumped on that," Fine said.