Mr. James is a Shareholder in Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck’s Los Angeles office. He is a member of the firm’s Employment and Litigation groups. He also serves on the firm’s Inclusiveness and Diversity Committee.

Mr. James has extensive experience in employment litigation issues such as advising corporate human resources departments on employee hiring, terminations, layoffs, and wage and hour issues; defending corporate clients against sexual harassment, age, race, gender and disability discrimination claims in federal and state courts; and creating, drafting and implementing workplace policies, employee programs and performance management tools. He also has experience in advising and representing clients against claims for fraud, breach of contract and various business tort claims.

Mr. James has also worked to provide legal advice and counsel at the senior management and executive levels regarding intellectual property, licensing and contract law issues as they relate to day to day business operations.

Prior to joining the firm, Mr. James was the Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary of SAGE Publications in Thousand Oaks, California. Prior to that, he was a partner at Manatt Phelps & Phillips in Los Angeles, where he co-managed the firm’s Labor & Employment practice group from 2003-2005.