We are honored to have attorney James W. Taylor on the show tomorrow. A practitioner of IP and Entertainment Law, James will talk about his experience assisting a victim of human trafficking- an interesting and complicated area of immigration law.
James W. Taylor, Of Counsel at the Jacobson Law Firm represents the firm’s west coast clientele. During the 1980’s, Mr. Taylor acted as Of Counsel to the firm assisting with the negotiation of complicated media deals. Taylor brings more than 30 years of diverse legal experience and will be based in Seattle, Washington. He provides legal services to entertainment law clients in Seattle, San Francisco and Los Angeles. Mr. Taylor’s experience includes former positions in Fortune 50 corporations, national law firms and with federal and international governments. He also has film production experience including screenwriting and short story development as well as script and screen credits. He has been legal counsel for several feature films and advised artists on copyright and intellectual property law. He also produced television commercials for the U.S. Air Force, was the Executive Producer of a Discovery Channel documentary and has won film awards for some of his productions.
Taylor received his law degree in 1980 from the Pacific McGeorge School of Law in Sacramento, California, a University of the Pacific school. He holds the Master of Laws and Master of Arts degrees from the George Washington University in Washington, D.C. He received his Bachelor of Arts from the Miami University in Ohio. Taylor is admitted to practice law in California, the District of Columbia and Washington State. In 1987, he was admitted to the bar of the United States Supreme Court. He has been a long-time member of the American Bar Association and formerly was the Associate Editor of an ABA professional journal.
His entertainment-related memberships include The International Documentary Association, Northwest Screenwriter’s Guild, Washington Lawyers for the Arts and he previously was a Board Member of Seattle’s 911 Media Arts Center and the ACME Theatre Company in Davis, California. Mr. Taylor is married with four adult children and, although he travels extensively in his lawyer capacity, he lives in the Seattle, Washington area.
James will be on my talk show “Immigration with Tahmina”at 10 am on February 9th on Desi 1250 AM. You can tune into your radio at 1250 AM or listen online at www.desi1250am.com.