Jim is a partner in the IP & Technology Transactions Group. His practice leverages both his experience in board level technology and outsourcing projects and his experience in sophisticated privacy, security and network intrusion issues.
Jim has worked on numerous transformative sourcing and technology transactions, including a range of IT, BPO, HR, F&A, facilities management, ERP, cloud, ecommerce/online, open source and social media initiatives. Privacy and security are central issues in nearly every technology and data centric initiative in Jim’s practice. Accordingly, he has worked extensively with clients on privacy and security issues and initiatives for a number of years, including having founded the firm’s privacy task force in the late 1990s. This includes extensive work on behalf of financial services, health care, telecommunications and other regulated companies, retailers, online advertising issues and international data transfer issues.
His practice also involves security breach management and response, including everything from notification of the affected individuals, to e-discovery and internal investigations and law enforcement issues. Jim worked with a number of partners to form the firm’s Security Incident Management and Response Team, a unique team devoted to cyber and security crisis management and response.
Privacy and Data Security
- Assisting an international retailer in a comprehensive overhaul of its privacy, security, PCI and data management practices, while counseling the company in an FTC and multiple state attorneys general investigations.
- Advising one of the world’s largest interactive marketing providers in an international criminal network intrusion involving records of more than 60 million individuals worldwide.
- Advising one of the world's largest Internet and email concerns on its implementation of safe harbor compliance obligations with its worldwide network of edge network providers.
- Assisting one of the world's largest investment banks in its implementation of the Red Flag Rules.
- Advising a major retailer in a breach involving more than 1 million names and social security numbers in all fifty states.
- Assisting an offshore multinational bank and financial services entity on its data gathering, use and transfer compliance program spanning 10 jurisdictions and three continents, including the EU.
- Assisting one of the world’s largest private companies in design, development and compliance initiatives for a consolidated data base of employee information for more than 700 subsidiary companies in more than 20 countries.
Sourcing/Technology
- Multiple comprehensive outsourcings and renegotiations of IT and processing infrastructure on behalf of Fortune 100/500 members, spanning multiple source and destination jurisdictions and continents.
- Representation of a UK private equity investment group in the acquisition of a U.S.-based outsourcing provider in the health care space and subsequent move of substantially the entire service delivery infrastructure offshore.
- Representation of one of the world's largest hybrid public-private banking concerns in the integration and license of a comprehensive Enterprise Resource Planning system involving operations in at least 23 countries.
- Representation of one of the world's largest money managers in the "transfer" portion of a Build/Operate/Transfer transaction, addressing tax, benefits, intellectual property and other issues arising in moving approximately 500 FTEs from a niche provider's facilities in a Software Technology Park in India to a newly created Special Economic Zone.
- Unique BPO transaction on behalf of a Fortune 200 insurer, sourcing novel and core aspects of regulated activities to an Indian service provider.
- Representation of a state agency in its acquisition of development and fiscal agent services in a Medicare/Medicaid implementation processing approximately $12 billion per year in health care related payments.
- Multiple comprehensive and single-process HR transactions, including one transaction involving 43 client jurisdictions and two of the largest five HR transactions during 2009 and 2010.
- Multiple applications development and maintenance and business process transactions, including finance and administration, transaction processing, procurement and customer care transactions (onshore, offshore and near-shore, including jurisdictions as diverse as Canada, Ireland, Ghana, Guatemala, India, Philippines, Vietnam, China, Rumania and Poland).
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- Recognized for a number of years as one of “America's Leading Lawyers” for information technology matters.
- Recognized for a number of years as one of America's leading lawyers in business process outsourcing by Chambers USA.
- Active participant in the Free Software Foundation's efforts to develop version 3.0 of the General Public License.
- Current vice chair and former chair of the Technology Section of the State Bar of Georgia
- Member of the Intellectual Property Section
- Recognized as one of Georgia’s “Super Lawyers” for a number of years.
- Member, Phi Beta Kappa
- Member, Board of Trustees, Atlanta International School