Career
With a background combining business experience, legal expertise, and technology, Jim takes a unique, integrated approach to meet his clients’ needs relating to global privacy compliance, innovative data uses, artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, breach response, litigation, and regulatory enforcements.
Drawing on his experience and reputation with regulators, Jim also regularly advises companies on compliance practices and through regulatory investigations. His work has included serving as the lead subject matter expert designing security, privacy, and business solutions in several high-profile U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Civil Rights (OCR) enforcement proceedings involving social media, mobile, and health care companies. Among them are several cases that are the first of their kind.
Before joining the firm, Jim led the privacy and cybersecurity practices of two Am Law 100 firms. He also built and led the privacy, and co-led the cybersecurity practices at PricewaterhouseCoopers and Booz Allen. Jim has also held senior marketing, management, and legal positions at QVC and MaMaMedia.com (a children’s education internet startup) and was named inventor or co-inventor on six patent applications, relating to security and privacy-enhancing technologies.