Companies facing complicated disputes, especially over intellectual property or proprietary information, turn to attorney Jim Flynn for creative solutions. Jim is known among clients and colleagues for his willingness to tackle unusual challenges and act quickly in time-sensitive matters arising in courtroom, arbitral, or administrative law settings.
To help clients prevail in high-stakes commercial, intellectual property, employment, and trade secret/data theft cases and in a broad array of matters resisting or challenging governmental actions, Jim employs novel arguments that stand up to scrutiny, even as the law continues to evolve, and deploys multi-forum tactics providing clients the benefit of his wide-ranging experience.
Jim brings a distinct business sensibility to managing the risks clients face in dealing with their challenges. He is committed to putting legal matters into a broader perspective. Whether confronted with situations involving employee access to confidential information, government action, and enforcement, or commercial agreement disputes, his incisive advice helps businesses achieve their goals. In addition to litigation, he advises on policy development, staffing changes, and noncompete and non-solicitation agreements, helping clients weigh their options and prepare for outcomes. In larger transactional matters, Jim asks the right questions to produce clear and unvarnished due diligence and third-party assessments. When one needs to resist government enforcement or challenge administrative rules or rulings, Jim's diverse legal and business experience offers clients a broad reservoir of creative, supported paths to success. He frequently speaks and writes about employment law, copyrights and trademarks, confidentiality, trade secrets, evidence rules, trial practice, and attorney ethics.
As the firm's Managing Director, Jim also engages in various forms of thought leadership on law firm and practice values and management.
