James Barrett is a Stakeholder at Eimer Stahl, where he focuses his practice on complex trial and appellate litigation. James previously served as Deputy Solicitor General for the State of Georgia. In that role, he coordinated litigation strategy, drafted briefs in the U.S. Supreme Court, Georgia Supreme Court, and U.S. Courts of Appeals, and argued cases before the Supreme Court of Georgia and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit.
James graduated with distinction and Order of the Coif from Northwestern Pritzker School of Law, where he served as an Articles Editor for the Northwestern University Law Review, worked as a judicial intern for the Honorable Trevor N. McFadden of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, and volunteered at legal aid organizations in Chicago. After graduation, James clerked for the Honorable Britt C. Grant of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit.