James Donnelly Email Address

Litigation Partner Complex Business and IP Litigation

Pond, founded in 1965, is a progressive, full-service architecture and engineering consulting firm ready to help you achieve your specific project goals by providing architecture, engineering, planning, construction and construction management services to government, corporate and private sector clients throughout the world. We are an award-winning design firm with a long-standing reputation for excellence - in design innovation, service quality and client satisfaction. We take great pride in delivering quality, value and service through our vast experience, dedicated professionals, rigorous QA/QC programs, expert design services, extensive build capabilities, complete project management solutions and commitment to energy conservations and LEED® sustainable design. Pond is unique in that we offer innovative, leading-edge solutions to help you manage projects from concept to completion - and everything in between - with confidence and clarity. At Pond, our goal is always 100% client satisfaction. We consistently deliver this as a result of our full-service, all-in-one project delivery approach, allowing you to experience an unmatched level of satisfaction and value-added benefits. Pond is ranked among the "Top 25 Engineering Firms" for the past ten years by the Atlanta Business Chronicle and as one of the industry's "Best Places to Work" for the past three years by both ZweigWhite and Atlanta Business Chronicle. Pond is headquartered in Norcross, GA with offices in Jacksonville, FL, Norfolk, VA, Intown Atlanta, GA, St Louis, MO, Dallas | Fort Worth, TX and Phoenix, AZ as well as additional service offices throughout the U.S. We are responsive people and real partners ready to help you deliver your project on time and in budget.

Jim is a partner whose practice focuses on complex civil litigation and business disputes with an emphasis on business, corporate and fiduciary matters, including business torts, breach of fiduciary duty, unfair competition and intellectual property litigation. He advises clients on risk analysis and dispute resolution. He chaired the firm's Litigation Group from 1992 to 1996. Jim has more than 35 years of experience in trial and appellate courts in Massachusetts. He is admitted in several other jurisdictions, including the U.S. Courts of Appeals for the First, Second, Third and Seventh Circuits in Boston, New York, Philadelphia and Chicago, respectively; as well as the U.S. District Courts for the Districts of Massachusetts and the Northern District of Ohio; and the U.S. Tax Court. He has also been specially admitted for particular matters in state and/or federal courts in New Hampshire, Connecticut, Illinois, Texas and Washington State. He is an experienced negotiator and has served as a court-appointed master and mediator in complex business disputes. In 2009, Jim was named a Massachusetts "Super Lawyer" by Boston magazine and Law & Politics.