Information Technology Law IT Outsourcing Law Privacy and Data Security Law
James A. "Jim" Harvey
Recognized in Best Lawyers since 2008 Awarded Practice Areas
Biography
Jim is a partner in the Technology and Privacy Group and co-chairs the firm’s Privacy & Security task force and the firm’sCybersecurity Preparedness & Response Team.
Jim’s practice involves board-level and enterprise-wide issues at the intersection of global cybersecurity, privacy, technology and data initiatives. Given his decades-long experience in the technology space, Jim was one of the first lawyers in the United States to focus on the criticality of privacy and data management issues for global corporations. This immersion in technology and data matters motivated Jim to found both the firm’s Privacy & Security task force and the firm’s Cybersecurity Preparedness & Response Team, well before other firms realized these issues faced their clients. Today, Jim and these teams assist multinational clients from a wide array of industries with a full spectrum of cyber, privacy and technology issues, adversarial matters and transactions, including everything from preparing companies and their boards for cybersecurity risks, responding to network intrusion and other security incidents, collecting, storing, processing and monetizing personal and corporate data around the globe, and acquiring technology and services in today’s networked world.
Overview
- The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, J.D., graduated 1988
- University of Arkansas, BA, graduated 1983
- Georgia, State Bar of Georgia
- CompTIA Cybersecurity Advisory Counsel - Member
- Free Software Foundation’s efforts to develop version 3.0 of the General Public License - Active participant
- Atlanta International School - Member, Board of Trustees
- Intellectual Property Section of the State Bar of Georgia - Member
- Phi Beta Kappa - Member
- Georgia, State Bar of Georgia
- CompTIA Cybersecurity Advisory Counsel - Member
- Free Software Foundation’s efforts to develop version 3.0 of the General Public License - Active participant
- Atlanta International School - Member, Board of Trustees
- Intellectual Property Section of the State Bar of Georgia - Member
- Phi Beta Kappa - Member
- The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, J.D., graduated 1988
- University of Arkansas, BA, graduated 1983
Client Testimonials
Awards & Focus
Named "Lawyer of the Year" by Best Lawyers® for:
- Privacy and Data Security Law, Atlanta (2024)
- Information Technology Law, Atlanta (2020)
- Information Technology Law, Atlanta (2014)
Recognized in The Best Lawyers in America® 2026 for work in:
- Information Technology Law
- IT Outsourcing Law
- Privacy and Data Security Law
Special Focus:
- COVID-19
- Outsourcing
Awards:
- Selected as an “IP Star” by Managing IP for 2013-present
- Recognized as one of Georgia’s “Super Lawyers” for a number of years
- International Who’s Who of Information Technology Lawyers 2013-present
- Recognized for a number of years as one of America's leading lawyers in business process outsourcing by Chambers USA.
- Recognized for a number of years as one of “America's Leading Lawyers” for information technology matters.
- Recommended IT lawyer in Georgia by IT Law Experts (2014)
News & Media
Additional Information
Case History
Cases
- Privacy and Data Security
- Represented a leading payment processing company in all phases of unauthorized intrusion into their network and all associated third party actions and proceedings.
- Assisting an international retailer in a comprehensive overhaul of its privacy, security, PCI and data management practices, while counseling the company in an FTC and multiple state attorneys general investigations.
- Advising one of the world’s largest interactive marketing providers in an international criminal network intrusion involving records of more than 60 million individuals worldwide.
- Advising one of the world's largest Internet and email concerns on its implementation of safe harbor compliance obligations with its worldwide network of edge network providers.
- Assisting one of the world's largest investment banks in its implementation of the Red Flag Rules.
- Advising a major retailer in a breach involving more than 1 million names and social security numbers in all fifty states.
- Assisting an offshore multinational bank and financial services entity on its data gathering, use and transfer compliance program spanning 10 jurisdictions and three continents, including the EU.
- Assisting one of the world’s largest private companies in design, development and compliance initiatives for a consolidated data base of employee information for more than 700 subsidiary companies in more than 20 countries.
- Sourcing/Technology
- 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 in the health care space and subsequent move of substantially the entire service delivery infrastructure offshore.
- 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.
- 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.
- Part 2
- Unique BPO transaction on behalf of a Fortune 200 insurer, 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 health care related payments.
- Multiple comprehensive and single-process HR transactions, including one transaction involving 43 client jurisdictions and two of the largest five HR transactions during 2009 and 2010.
- Multiple applications development and maintenance and business process transactions, including finance and administration, transaction processing, procurement and customer care transactions (onshore, offshore and near-shore, including jurisdictions as diverse as Canada, Ireland, Ghana, Guatemala, India, Philippines, Vietnam, China, Rumania and Poland).
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