Jim Harvey is a partner in and co-chair of the firm's Global Technology, Outsourcing & Privacy Group. Jim’s broad practice revolves around enterprise wide transactions and issues arising from the acquisition and use of services and data domestically and internationally. The transactional practice side of his practice is composed of board level, complex IT, HR and business process sourcing and offshoring and related transactions. The counseling side of Jim's practice focuses on privacy, security, data management and breach issues, proprietary and open source 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 and related transactions, including:
- multiple comprehensive outsourcings and renegotiations of IT and processing infrastructure on behalf of Fortune 100/500 members, spanning multiple source and destination jurisdictions and continents
- representation of a UK private equity investment group in the acquisition of a U.S. based outsourcing provider and subsequent move of substantially all of the service delivery infrastructure offshore
- representation of one of the world's largest money managers in the "transfer" portion of a Build/Operate/Transfer transaction, addressing tax, benefits, intellectual property and other issues arising in moving approximately 500 FTEs from a niche provider's facilities in a Software Technology Park in India to a newly created Special Economic Zone
- 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 and single process HR transactions, including one transaction involving 43 client jurisdictions
- multiple applications development and maintenance and business process transactions, including finance and administration, transaction processing, procurement and customer care transactions (onshore, offshore and nearshore, including jurisdictions as diverse as Canada, Ireland, Ghana, Guatemala, India, Philippines, Vietnam, China, Rumania and Poland)
- representation of one of the world's largest hybrid public private banking concerns in the integration and license of a comprehensive Enterprise Resource Planning system involving operations in at least 23 countries.
Throughout his career, Jim has focused on issues related to intangible infrastructure and assets. For example, Jim has advised 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
- Secretary 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, 2009 and 2010 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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