James P. Harris - Manchester, NH

Overview

Awards and Honors

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Education

• Legal Education

  • Catholic University of America, Columbus School of Law, Washington, District of Columbia
    J.D.
    Honors: magna cum laude
    Law Review: Catholic University Law Review, Editorial Assistant

• Non Legal Education

  • Swarthmore College
    B.A.
    Honors: With Honors

Current Employment Position(s)

• Shareholder

Classes and Seminars

• Panelist, BIA’s Virtual NH Leadership Summit, Topic: possible legislative actions to provide limited immunity to business owners against Covid-19 claims
  
• Presenter, NH Bar Association, Issues Arising from Corporate and Limited Liability Company Fractures, Breach of Fiduciary Duty
  
• Presenter, Governor’s Economic Re-Opening Task Force, Liability Businesses and Employers Might Face Due to COVID-19 Claims
  
• Panelist, BIA webinar, Are We Liable? What Employers Need to Know About COVID-19-related Exposure
  
• Speaker, NH Bar Association CLE Panel, A Practical Guide to Evidence: What You Need to Know in Every Court (March 2019)
  
• Speaker, NH Bar Association, The Law of Noncompetes (May 2018)
  
• Speaker, NH Health Care Association, 2018 Spring Conference, Data Breaches in the Healthcare Sector (May 2018)
  
• Presenter, Public Sector Seminar, Data Breaches, (October 2018)
  
• Speaker, NH Bar Association, Liability for Officers, Directors and Owners of Limited Liability Companies and Closely-Held Corporations
  
• Recent cyber security presenter at The World Affairs Council

Pro Bono Activities

• Former Chair, St. Joseph Community Services Board of Directors (Meals on Wheels for Hillsborough County)
• Kevin T. McHugh Memorial Scholarship Fund and serves on the New Hampshire Catholic Charities' Peer-to-Peer Campaign
• Board Member, Granite United Way

Published Works

Articles

• Does Allowing Employees Implicated in Litigation To Search Their Own Files Constitute a Failure to Implement a Proper Litigation Hold?
  
• Record Retention in an Increasingly Paperless World
  
• Grabbing Hold of a Cloud: Litigation Holds For Users of the Cloud
  
• A Plaintiff’s Case is Dismissed and the Plaintiff is Fined $1M Because Its Outside Consultant Failed to Preserve Evidence.
  
• Two Courts Examine the Same Conduct and Reach Polar Opposite Conclusions on Spoliation of Evidence
  
• Employee’s Emails to Personal Attorney Sent from Employer’s Computer Are Not Privileged
• New Hampshire’s Business Court Holds that Members of a Limited Liability Company Owe Each Other Fiduciary Duties
• “Let me get this straight, I have to train my competitor how to use my database?”
• Essential Compliance Tips for the Storage and Disclosure of Electronically Stored Information (“ESI”)
• Promises to Keep, Sort of… Do HR Policies Create Duties to Third Parties?
• The Brave New World of Document Retention and Destruction
• Noncompetes Can Protect Your Company's "Goodwill"
• Chambers and Partners Real Estate Litigation: NH Laws and Practice
• Don’t oversell your cybersecurity
• Cyber insurance from the perspective of a data breach lawyer
• The fine print: key contract clauses impacting cyber liability
• Tips on Keeping Your Private Information Safe
• Treasury Department issues updated advisory on potential sanctions for making ransomware payments
• Thinking about sharing data with a new vendor? Will you be responsible if the vendor’s systems are breached?
• Does your sales team want to keep data about your customers forever? Do the recently adopted privacy statutes allow that?
• The Potential Impact of the FTC’s Data Privacy Orders
• Cybersecurity Experts Issue Ransomware Alert for Healthcare Industry
• Preparing for Cyberattacks
• Update on HB 1680
• N.H. Attorney General Concludes Employers Will Not Be Liable to Employees for Workers’ Compensation Benefits If Employers Follow Published Guidelines
• Will Your Commercial General Liability Insurance Policy Cover COVID-19 Claims?
• When Business Resumes, What Responsibilities Will Companies Have to Prevent the Spread of COVID-19?
• NH Attorney General Permits Not-For-Profit Boards to Meet Remotely During State of Emergency
• Remote Notarizations in NH During This State of Emergency – Don’t Forget the Formalities When Notarizing Documents
• Don’t Forget About Cybersecurity with Increased Telecommuting
• Carefully Safeguarding the Sensitive Data of Your Business
• Business-Liability Protections Face Steep Political and Legal Obstacles
• NH Weighs California-like Privacy Law
• Misrepresenting Data Security Measures Put Businesses at Risk
• The Risks of Working at Home
• How State’s New Social Media Access Law Will Work
• Dealing with a Data Breach
• CLIENT ALERT: How CA’s New Data Privacy Law Will Affect You
• Privacy Regs From Across the Pond
• Online ‘Influencer’ Rules
• Efficiently Mining an Opponent’s Discovery
• Three Lessons from the Equifax Data Breach
• Copyright Office Moves to Electronic DMCA Registry
• Dealing with a data breach: Steps commonly undertaken when employee or customer information is stolen
• NH Legal Perspective: Social media and the employee – From hiring to departure
• NH Legal Perspective: Key consideration to using staffing companies to find temp workers
• How state’s new social media access law will work: Measure gives employees privacy in their personal email and social media accounts
• NH Legal Perspective: Steps An Employer Can Take To Reduce Risk When Firing An Employee

Bar Admissions

• New Hampshire
• U.S. District Court District of New Hampshire
• U.S. Court of Appeals 5th Circuit
• U.S. Court of Appeals 1st Circuit

Other Affiliations

• New Hampshire Bar Association (Past Member of Legislation Committee)
• American Bar Association (Member)
• New Hampshire Bar Association’s Legislation Committee. (Past Member)
• Massachusetts Bar Association