Overview

Jim is a partner in the Austin office of Kirkland & Ellis LLP. Jim helps clients navigate intellectual property and litigation issues in Texas federal district courts and other forums throughout the country. Before joining Kirkland’s Austin office, Jim clerked for Judge J. Rodney Gilstrap in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas. Prior to that, Jim was an associate in Kirkland’s Washington, D.C. office for nearly three years where he represented a diverse number of clients on a broad range of intellectual property issues and technology.

Jim’s background in computer science allows him to quickly understand his clients’ technology to develop creative legal solutions and arguments while working closely with technical witnesses in patent, trade secret, copyright and false advertising cases. Jim’s litigation experience includes a variety of technologies in the fields of cloud computing, chip design, medical devices, mobile devices, wastewater treatment, razor blade coatings, subsea drilling, and drill bits in oil and gas applications.

Jim is experienced in all phases of litigation, including pre-suit investigation, injunctive relief, fact discovery, expert discovery, pre-trial and trial. Jim has practiced in various forums across Texas as well as federal district courts throughout the United States, the International Trade Commission, and the Patent Trial and Appeal Board.

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Credentials

Admissions & Qualifications

  • 2020Texas
  • 2018District of Columbia

Courts

  • United States District Court for the District of Columbia
  • United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas
  • United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas
  • United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas
  • United States District Court for the Western District of Texas

Education

  • Georgetown University Law CenterJ.D.cum laude2018
    Staff Editor, The Tax Lawyer Journal
  • Southern Methodist UniversityB.S., Computer Sciencemagna cum laude2015
    Tau Beta Pi