Atlanta Magazine twice recognized Ms. James as a Georgia Super Lawyers Rising Star.
Contact Information: Angela Payne James
One Atlantic Center
1201 West Peachtree Street
Atlanta, GA 30309-3424
Phone: 404-881-7449
Fax: 404-253-8252
angela.james@alston.com
Ms. James serves as the Chair of the firm’s Atlanta Diversity Committee, is a member of the firm’s nationwide Diversity Steering Committee, and was the recipient of the 2006 Alston & Bird LLP Diversity Leadership Award. She is a past member of the firm’s Associates Committee and Hiring Committee, and has served as a Coordinator for the firm’s Summer Associate Program.
Ms. James currently serves on the Board of Directors for Hands On Atlanta and the Atlanta Legal Diversity Consortium. She is a member of the Georgia State Bar Diversity Steering Committtee and has volunteered as a guardian ad litem for the Truancy Intervention Project.
Ms. James has published articles on trademark and Internet-related issues in the National Law Journal and the Southeastern Intellectual Property Journal. In addition, she has lectured on intellectual property, e-commerce, and diversity related topics for various organizations around the country.
Prior to joining Alston & Bird in 1997, Ms. James completed a one-year clerkship with The Honorable Sandra L. Lynch, United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit in Boston, Massachusetts.
Ms. James received her J.D., cum laude, in 1996 from Harvard Law School where she was Co-Editor-in-Chief of the Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review and where she received the Massachusetts Black Judges Conference Award for Outstanding Scholarship. In 1992, she graduated, cum laude, from Harvard College with a B.A. in government and received the Saltonstall Prize for Most Outstanding Senior Entering Harvard Law School.
Ms. James is a member of the American Bar Association, the State Bar of Georgia Intellectual Property Section, the Georgia Association of Black Women Attorneys, and the Gate City Bar.
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