Mr James King > Seyfarth Shaw LLP > Atlanta, United States > Lawyer Profile
Seyfarth Shaw LLP Offices
1075 PEACHTREE STREET, NE
SUITE 2500
ATLANTA, GA 30309-3962
GEORGIA
United States
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Mr James King
Work Department
Labor and Employment Department; Business Immigration Practice Group.
Position
Jim King co-chairs Seyfarth Shaw’s global Business Immigration Group, helping clients to create efficiencies in their business immigration management programs while optimizing the stakeholder-user experience. Jim leads the group’s immigration process and systems strategy, working with Seyfarth Labs to bring innovation and automation to the every-day tasks involved in managing large immigration portfolios. Within the last 18 months the group developed and launched the Caribou immigration case management and client portal platform, harnessing the full potential of the Salesforce-based system and moving forward with resources to help our clients navigate the changing and challenging immigration landscape.
Career
Jim has practiced business immigration law for nearly 40 years and is a partner at Seyfarth Shaw LLP.
Languages
Conversationally fluent in French and German.
Memberships
State Bar of Georgia (International Law Section, Past Chairperson (1994)); American Immigration Lawyers Association; Robert Bosch Foundation Fellow (1984-1985); Adjunct Professor, Emory School of Law.
Education
JD, University of Georgia Law School (1984), cum laude; BS, Georgetown University (1981), magna cum laude.
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Real estate > Construction (including construction litigation)
- Labor and employment > Immigration
- Labor and employment > Labor and employment disputes (including collective actions)
- Labor and employment > Labor-management relations
- Labor and employment > Immigration
- Labor and employment > Immigration
- Labor and employment > Immigration
- Labor and employment > Workplace and employment counseling
Firm Rankings
- Dispute resolution > E-discovery
- Labor and employment > Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: design
- Labor and employment > ERISA litigation
- Government > Government contracts
- M&A/corporate and commercial > M&A: middle-market (sub-$500m)
- Tax > Not-for-profit (Fortune 1000 private foundations, national trade associations, and charities)
- Intellectual property > Trade secrets (litigation and non-contentious matters)
- Media, technology and telecoms > Cyber law (including data privacy and data protection)
- Real estate > Real estate
- Industry focus > Cannabis
- Dispute resolution > Product liability, mass tort and class action - defense: consumer products (including tobacco)
- Real estate > Real estate finance
- Dispute resolution > Securities litigation: defense
- Investment fund formation and management > Private equity funds (including venture capital)
- Tax > US taxes: non-contentious