About The Author

In 2012 he was named by Law 360 as one of the ten most innovative law   firm   managing   partners.   For   a   time   James   served   as Chairman   and   CEO   of   Kaiser   Group International,   which included elements of the renowned Kaiser Engineers. He has substantial  domestic   and international   transactional experience on behalf of clients. In addition to his executive experience with Kaiser Group and the law firm, James has served   on   the   boards   of   a   leading   community   bank,   an employee-owned government contractor, and a joint venture that accomplished an extremely difficult nuclear clean-up, as well as numerous non-profit organizations. James grew up in small town America, remains very thankfully married to his high school sweetheart, earned a degree in history at the College of Wooster in Ohio, attended the University of Michigan Law School, and has resided in the Cleveland area (where his two children were born) and, for the past 30+ years, in the Washington, DC region. In this book James draws on a lifetime of relevant experience. In his life he draws inspiration from a wonderful family.