James is a data strategist, privacy lawyer, litigator, and author. His practice is built on a single conviction: Most businesses are sitting on more data value than they realize. He helps them see that value, protect it, and use it to grow. James advises clients across the full data life cycle, from designing sound data architecture and drafting data usage agreements to litigating over the value of a bankruptcy debtor's data book and deploying AI tools that drive new revenue and new markets. Whether the question is how to monetize a data asset, comply with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) or General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), or execute a cross-border data transfer from France to the United States, James provides counsel from start to finish.

An established privacy lawyer with a multinational presence, James serves as a certified advisor to the European Commission and holds certifications in both European and U.S. data security and privacy law. His approach is grounded in the belief that data is an extension of who people are. Getting privacy right, in his view, is not merely a compliance exercise but a matter of genuine consequence to individuals and the organizations that serve them. He was the principal drafter of the Webby award-winning A-Z of AI, a collaboration between Oxford University and Google. He is also the author of Data Leverage: Unlocking the Surprising Growth Potential of Data Partnerships, a bestselling book that continues to reframe how businesses think about their most underleveraged asset, and A New Theory of Privacy, a leading treatise on privacy in the age of AI.

Artificial intelligence is the second major pillar of James' practice. He writes and speaks extensively on AI, engages with frontier models and deployment frameworks, and focuses on the questions that most organizations fail to ask before they deploy. In an environment where shareholders and regulators are scrutinizing AI decisions with increasing intensity, James serves as the person who does the deep reading, surfaces the right questions, and translates that thinking into practical guidance clients can act on. His goal is to be the intellectual engine behind his clients' most consequential decisions involving data and AI. In short, James protects clients from risk while positioning them to lead.

James is also a seasoned litigator with more than a decade of experience in high-stakes matters spanning intellectual property, financial services, and consumer class actions. He brings the same creativity and rigor to litigation that he brings to contracts and strategic counsel, using sharp legal skills as the baseline and his deep knowledge in data and AI as the differentiator.