Angela Payne James is a partner in the firm’s Intellectual Property Litigation Group. She focuses her practice on patent, trademark, trade secret, and copyright litigation as well as other complex commercial litigation.
Ms. James has extensive experience in federal and state court at both the trial and appellate levels. She has litigated matters on behalf of a variety of technology-based clients including software companies, Internet service providers, and medical technology companies on a nationwide basis.
Recently, Ms. James represented a medical technology startup in a fraud/deceptive trade practices jury trial in federal court in North Carolina and won a judgment of $318 million. On appeal, the case settled for $180 million.
Ms. James also has extensive experience counseling clients on intellectual property compliance and enforcement matters, including web site and domain name disputes and administrative actions under ICANN’s Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy.
Angela Payne James is a partner in the firm’s Intellectual Property Litigation Group. She focuses her practice on patent, trademark, trade secret, and copyright litigation as well as other complex commercial litigation.
Ms. James has extensive experience in federal and state court at both the trial and appellate levels. She has litigated matters on behalf of a variety of technology-based clients including software companies, Internet service providers, and medical technology companies on a nationwide basis.
Recently, Ms. James represented a medical technology startup in a fraud/deceptive trade practices jury trial in federal court in North Carolina and won a judgment of $318 million. On appeal, the case settled for $180 million.
Ms. James also has extensive experience counseling clients on intellectual property compliance and enforcement matters, including web site and domain name disputes and administrative actions under ICANN’s Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy.
Ms. James has authored and published articles on trademark and Internet-related issues in the National Law Journal and the Southeastern Intellectual Property Journal. In addition, she has lectured on intellectual property and e-commerce related topics for various groups and has been a featured guest on Atlanta public radio.
Atlanta Magazine recognized Ms. James as a 2005 Georgia Super Lawyers Rising Star.
Ms. James is active in firm life and community service. She serves on the firm’s Associates Committee and Diversity Committee, is a past member of the Hiring Committee, and has served as a Coordinator for the firm’s Summer Associate Program. Ms. James currently serves on the Board of Directors for Hands On Atlanta and volunteers as a guardian ad litem for the Truancy Intervention Project.
Prior to joining Alston & Bird in 1997, Ms. James completed a one-year clerkship with The Honorable Sandra L. Lynch, United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit in Boston, Massachusetts.
Ms. James received her J.D., cum laude, in 1996 from Harvard Law School where she was Co-Editor-in-Chief of the Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review and where she received the Massachusetts Black Judges Conference Award for Outstanding Scholarship. In 1992, she graduated, cum laude, from Harvard College with a B.A. in Government and received the Saltonstall Prize for Most Outstanding Senior Entering Harvard Law School.
Ms. James is a member of the American Bar Association, the State Bar of Georgia Intellectual Property Section, the Georgia Association of Black Women Attorneys, and the Gate City Bar.