Angela Payne James is a partner in the firm’s Intellectual Property Litigation Group and Litigation & Trial Practice 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 clients in the medical technology, computer software, advertising, chemical agriculture, telecommunications, retail, media and entertainment industries on a nationwide basis. Ms. James also has extensive experience counseling clients on intellectual property compliance and enforcement matters, including web site and domain name disputes.
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.
Atlanta Magazine has recognized Ms. James as a Georgia Super Lawyers Rising Star three times.
Angela Payne James is a partner in the firm’s Intellectual Property Litigation Group and Litigation & Trial Practice 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 clients in the medical technology, computer software, advertising, chemical agriculture, telecommunications, retail, media and entertainment industries on a nationwide basis. Ms. James also has extensive experience counseling clients on intellectual property compliance and enforcement matters, including web site and domain name disputes.
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.
Atlanta Magazine has recognized Ms. James as a Georgia Super Lawyers Rising Star three times.
Ms. James has published articles on trademark, Internet-related issues and patent litigation in the National Law Journal, P.L.I Patent Litigation and the Southeastern Intellectual Property Journal. Ms. James is Co-Chair of the American Bar Association’s Intellectual Property Committee, Section of Litigation, Diversity Subcommittee and is a Barrister of the Atlanta Intellectual Property Inn of Court. In addition, she regularly lectures on intellectual property, e-commerce and diversity related topics for various organizations around the country.
Ms. James serves as the chair of the firm’s Atlanta Diversity Committee, is a member of the firm’s nationwide Diversity Steering Committee, and was the recipient of the 2006 Alston & Bird LLP Diversity Leadership Award. She is a past member of the firm’s Associates’ Committee and Hiring Committee and has served as a coordinator for the firm’s Summer Associate Program.
Ms. James is a member of the Leadership Atlanta Class of 2010. She also currently serves on the Advisory Board for Hands On Atlanta, the Posse Atlanta Leadership Council, and the Board of Directors for the Atlanta Legal Diversity Consortium. She is a member of the Georgia State Bar Diversity Steering Committee and has volunteered 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.