Jim Harvey is a partner in and co-chair of the firm's Global Technology, Outsourcing & Privacy Group. Jim's transactional practice is composed of board level, complex IT, HR and business process sourcing and offshoring transactions. The counseling side of Jim's practice focuses on privacy, security, data management and breach issues, software and other enterprise wide technology centric issues. He has been recognized for a number of years as one of America's leading lawyers in business process outsourcing by Chambers USA and has "amazing creativity" in his approach to the structuring of agreements (Chambers USA). He is also recognized as one of America's Leading Lawyers for Information Technology matters. Given the expansive nature of this technology centric practice, Jim often works with multi-disciplinary teams of lawyers, including mergers and acquisitions, intellectual property, tax, data privacy and other focused subject matter resources.
In his transactional practice, Jim has worked on several billion dollars worth of sourcing transactions, including:
- multiple comprehensive outsourcings of IT and processing infrastructure on behalf of Fortune 100/500 members, spanning multiple source and destination jurisdictions and continents
- unique BPO transaction on behalf of one of the world's largest insurers, sourcing novel and core aspects of regulated activities to an Indian service provider
- representation of a State agency in its acquisition of development and fiscal agent services in a Medicare/Medicaid implementation processing approximately $12 billion per year in healthcare related payments
- multiple comprehensive HR transactions, including one single transaction involving 43 client jurisdictions
- applications development and maintenance (onshore, offshore and nearshore, including jurisdictions as diverse as Canada, Ireland, Ghana, Guatemala, India, China, Rumania, and Poland)
- a wide variety of transformative BPO transactions, including HR, finance and administration, transaction processing, procurement and customer care transactions.
Throughout his career, Jim has focused on issues related to intangible infrastructure and assets. For example, in the last year, Jim has advised a leading financial services company on its implementation of the FTC's affiliate marketing rule, one of the world's largest internet and email concerns on their implementation of Safe Harbor compliance obligations with their worldwide network of edge network providers, one of the nation's largest investment banks on their implementation of the Red Flag Rules, an internet media company on a third party, multi-jurisdictional data security breach and an offshore multi-national bank and financial services entity on their data gathering, use and transfer compliance program spanning ten jurisdictions and three continents. Jim also has extensive experience in open source issues on behalf of vendors and users and was an active participant in the Free Software Foundation's efforts to develop version 3.0 of the General Public License. He writes and speaks frequently with respect to these and other cutting edge, technologically driven legal topics.
Membership 
- Member, State Bar of Georgia
- Member, State Bar of Georgia, Intellectual Property Law Section
- Member, Executive Committee and Former Chair, State Bar of Georgia, Technology Law Section
- Member, Computer Law Association
- Member, Free Software Foundation, GPL 3.0, End User Committee
- Former Member, Board of Directors, Southeastern Software Association
- Member, Board of Trustees, Atlanta International School
Awards and Professional Recognition
- One of the "Best Lawyers in America" for Information Technology Law, as published in Best Lawyers in America, 2008 and 2009 editions
- Ranked as one of America's leading lawyers by Chambers USA for Business Process Outsourcing since 2005
- Recognized as one of Georgia's Best Lawyers in 2009
- Recommended in Global Outsourcing, Practical Law Company, Cross-border Outsourcing Handbook 2010
Education - J.D., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, with honors, 1988
- B.A., University of Arkansas, Phi Beta Kappa, Economics, 1983
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