Jim is one of the founding lawyers of Hill Ward Henderson. He is the Managing Shareholder of the firm. Jim's practice primarily involves business and real estate transactions. Jim has experience in a wide range of sophisticated commercial business and real estate matters including land acquisition and development, mergers and acquisitions, leasing and financing transactions. He also regularly acts as outside general counsel to a variety of clients.

Jim has actively represented automobile dealerships, with a particular emphasis on dealership acquisitions and dispositions, as well as related real property transactions.

Jim represents a number of significant owners of real estate, as well as national and local development entities in their real estate matters. Recently, Jim was the lead attorney on the sale of nearly 28,000 acres of real property located in Central Florida, one of the largest single land transfers in Central Florida.

Jim is active in several of Tampa's civic, charitable and social organizations. He has served on the Boards of Directors of The Florida Aquarium, The Tampa Bay History Center and The Academy of the Holy Names. Jim is also a long time youth baseball coach.