Jim, a Partner at Wood Phillips, focuses his practice on providing counsel for all the ways that intellectual property and artificial intelligence (AI) issues can and will impact businesses. Before, Jim served as Senior Program Attorney for The Sedona Conference for almost a decade, managing its patent litigation (WG9/10) and trade secret (WG12) working groups. Earlier in his career, Jim was sole in-house counsel for Ubee Interactive Corp., headquartered in Taiwan and with offices in the U.S. and the Netherlands, and was a patent litigator at Howrey, LLP in Washington, D.C. Jim also has served as co-founder and general counsel for a startup AI company, and is currently serving as a board member of the Arizona College of Trial Advocacy and as a board advisor for Artificial Intelligence Venture Network, a nonprofit 501(c)(6) organization dedicated to realizing the promise of AI in business and society.