Jim Beha represents clients in high-stakes business disputes, including securities, mergers and acquisitions, bankruptcy, insurance, professional liability, real estate, and general commercial litigation.  He has a national practice with particular experience in federal and state court in New York and in Delaware Chancery Court.

In his securities litigation practice, Jim defends public companies, corporate officers and directors, and underwriting syndicates in securities class actions, M&A litigation, shareholder derivative litigation, and SEC enforcement proceedings. He also advises corporate boards, special committees, and directors conducting internal investigations and in responses to shareholder demands, disclosure issues, and other corporate governance matters.

A frequent author on topics related to complex business litigation issues, Jim has published articles in The New York Law Journal, Law360, The Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance and Financial Regulation, and other leading legal publications. He is also co-author of chapters in several leading treatises, including “Director and Officer Liability” in Commercial Litigation in New York State Courts (Thomson Reuters); “Settling a Class Action” in Settlement Agreements in Commercial Disputes: Negotiating, Drafting & Enforcement (Wolters Kluwer Law & Business); “Securitization and Structured Finance Litigation” in Business and Commercial Litigation in Federal Courts (Thomson Reuters); and “Insider Trading Laws and Employee Stock Compensation” in Insider Trading Law and Developments (ABA).

Jim is an active member of the Federal Bar Council, currently serving on its Second Circuit Courts Committee and in the Council’s Inn of Court. He also serves as co-chair of the New York State Bar Association's Securities Litigation Committee and on the Executive Committee of the New York State Bar’s Federal and Commercial Litigation Section.

Earlier in his career, Jim served as a law clerk to the Honorable Kevin Thomas Duffy, United States District Judge for the Southern District of New York. He received his A.B. with honors from Princeton University and his J.D. from New York University School of Law.

A life-long New Yorker, Jim serves on the Board of Directors of SCO Family Services, the largest human services agency in the New York area, and on the Lawyers’ Committee of the Inner-City Scholarship Fund.