About James
Jim is a partner in the Technology and Privacy Group and co-chairs the firm’s Privacy & Security task force and the firm’sCybersecurity Preparedness & Response Team.Jim’s practice involves board-level and enterprise-wide issues at the intersection of global cybersecurity, privacy, technology and data initiatives. Given his decades-long experience in the technology space, Jim was one of the first lawyers in the United States to focus on the criticality of privacy and data management issues for global corporations. This immersion in technology and data matters motivated Jim to found both the firm’s Privacy & Security task force and the firm’s Cybersecurity Preparedness & Response Team, well before other firms realized these issues faced their clients. Today, Jim and these teams assist multinational clients from a wide array of industries with a full spectrum of cyber, privacy and technology issues, adversarial matters and transactions, including everything from preparing companies and their boards for cybersecurity risks, responding to network intrusion and other security incidents, collecting, storing, processing and monetizing personal and corporate data around the globe, and acquiring technology and services in today’s networked world.
Jim is a partner in the Technology and Privacy Group and co-chairs the firm’s Privacy & Security task force and the firm’sCybersecurity Preparedness & Response Team.
Jim’s practice involves board-level and enterprise-wide issues at the intersection of global cybersecurity, privacy, technology and data initiatives. Given his decades-long experience in the technology space, Jim was one of the first lawyers in the United States to focus on the criticality of privacy and data management issues for global corporations. This immersion in technology and data matters motivated Jim to found both the firm’s Privacy & Security task force and the firm’s Cybersecurity Preparedness & Response Team, well before other firms realized these issues faced their clients. Today, Jim and these teams assist multinational clients from a wide array of industries with a full spectrum of cyber, privacy and technology issues, adversarial matters and transactions, including everything from preparing companies and their boards for cybersecurity risks, responding to network intrusion and other security incidents, collecting, storing, processing and monetizing personal and corporate data around the globe, and acquiring technology and services in today’s networked world.
Case History
Professional Affiliations
Awards & Recognition
- Lawyer of the Year: Privacy and Data Security Law, Atlanta (2024)
- Lawyer of the Year: Information Technology Law, Atlanta (2020)
- Lawyer of the Year: Information Technology Law, Atlanta (2014)
- Recognized: Information Technology Law
- Recognized: IT Outsourcing Law
- Recognized: Privacy and Data Security Law
- Special Focus: COVID-19
- Special Focus: Outsourcing
- Selected as an “IP Star” by Managing IP for 2013-present
- Recognized as one of Georgia’s “Super Lawyers” for a number of years
- International Who’s Who of Information Technology Lawyers 2013-present
- Recognized for a number of years as one of America's leading lawyers in business process outsourcing by Chambers USA.
- Recognized for a number of years as one of “America's Leading Lawyers” for information technology matters.
- Recommended IT lawyer in Georgia by IT Law Experts (2014)