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Jim has been an adjunct professor since 1979, teaching at the University of Maryland and University of Baltimore Schools of Law, University of Baltimore Graduate School of Communications Design, and Loyola College Graduate School of Business. Most recently, his teaching has focused on Trademark and Unfair Competition, Copyright, and Intellectual Property and Mass Communications at the University of Maryland and University of Baltimore Schools of Law. As his associates will readily tell you, Jim doesn't just lecture to law students. When he's not standing in front of a bunch of students (or a beleaguered young associate), Jim speaks nationwide on intellectual property topics, including advertising law, branding, trademark protection and copyright protection. Unfettered by his questionable typing and spelling skills, Jim doesn't limit his "getting out there" to speaking. He's a writer too. Since his earlier days when he nabbed his own column at ADWEEK magazine, Jim has become a fixture at The Daily Record, where his Legal ADvice column is featured monthly (and often garners a "hey, great column this month!" holler from a colleague on the street), and is the author of a trio of primers on Trademark, Copyright and Advertising law. Recently, Jim has co-authored Snake-Oil Security Claims, published in the Michigan Telecommunications & Technology Law Review and the text book The Essential Intellectual Property Primers: The Law of Trademark, Copyright and Advertising, published by The Graduate Group. Jim was named one of the Best Lawyers in America through a national nomination process in 2005, and has been named twice by Baltimore Magazine as one of Baltimore's Best Attorneys. Jim currently serves as President of the Advertising Association of Baltimore, was a member of the Executive Committee of the Bar Association of Baltimore City, Chairs the Advisory Committee for the University of Baltimore Graduate School of Publication Design, and is the former Chair of the Intellectual Property Committee of the Maryland State Bar Association. He also serves on the Peer Review Committee for the Maryland State Bar Association Grievance Committee, the Editorial Advisory Board of the Maryland Bar Journal, the Legal Advisory Committee of the Association of American Advertising Agencies and the Board of the Maryland Lawyers for the Arts. Jim is a recipient of the Crystal Prism Award for special contribution to the advertising industry, awarded by the American Advertising Federation and The Advertising Association of Baltimore. Jim's clients include advertising agencies, advertisers, architects and design, technology and communications firms nationwide. | 