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He was a shareholder with Pepper Hamilton until 1997, when he left to join Klett Rooney Lieber & Schorling, which merged with Buchanan Ingersoll in 2006.
Jim spends a significant amount of his time representing employers in union-related conflicts, including unfair labor practice proceedings, collective bargaining negotiations, grievance/arbitration hearings and active management of union election campaigns. He also has represented major employers before federal and state OSHA and MSHA in significant citations and litigation including cases involving fatalities, serious injuries and multiemployer work sites. He has been a member of the ABA Labor and Employment Section Committee of Occupational Safety and Health Law since 1981, and is currently serving as the program chair for that committee.
Jim also maintains a practice representing school districts and colleges and universities in labor relations and employee and student discipline matters, as well as in the areas of special education, student civil rights matters, legal consultation and staff training. He is a member of the Associated Builders and Contractors, Inc. National Attorneys Conference, the National School Boards Association Council of School Attorneys and a former member of the National Association of College and University Attorneys.
Recently, Jim has:

• Represented a major Philadelphia university and hospital in labor relations matters including union negotiations and supervisory and management training.
• Advised the senior management of a regional hospital in central Pennsylvania regarding employment issues.
• Acted as general counsel to a large Delaware school district including all special education legal matters.
• Represented a major producer of silica and other composites in all OSHA-related matters.
• Represented the nation's largest cable television and Internet provider in a ten-day unfair labor practice trial before the NLRB involving allegations brought by the Teamsters Union.
• Provided ogoing advice and counsel to the largest public utility in Delaware related to the company’s contingency planning for numerous potential work stoppages by various local unions.
• Served as national labor counsel to a transportation industry employer, including a wide range of services such as grievances/arbitrations, union election campaigns, sexual harassment training and the successful resolution of nationwide wage and hour law claims.
• Represented Delaware school district in one of the first challenges of a state regulation issued under the No Child Left Behind Act in the Delaware Court of Chancery.

Jim previously served as the vice president of labor and employment law and deputy general counsel for Comcast Cable Communications, Inc., advising the corporation on labor relations and employment practices and policies. He was responsible for the labor and employment due diligence examination in connection with Comcast's merger with AT&T Broadband in 2002 and managed the lawyers in Comcast's legal department responsible for employment-related issues. He also briefly served the corporation's Eastern Division as vice president for human resources and acted as the corporation's chief spokesperson at collective bargaining negotiations with the Teamsters, Electrical Workers and Communication Workers Unions.
He is an accomplished public speaker who frequently presents at conferences and seminars for attorneys, human resource professionals and employer associations. He was selected by his peers to appear in The Best Lawyers in America and is listed as a top labor and employment lawyer in Chambers USA: America's Leading Lawyers for Business.