CLE Seminar Speaker

Jim Murray

Jim Murray's trial experience has ranged from environmental contribution cases to breach of contract, bank fraud, trademark infringement and professional liability. He has almost twenty years' experience in the trial and settlement of insurance coverage matters on behalf of policyholders.

Jim was a partner at Covington & Burling in Washington, D.C., from 1990 to 1996. He returned to the West in 1996 to help form Gordon Murray Tilden LLP. Jim is a Rhodes Scholar and graduate of the University of Montana.

He has two law degrees from Oxford University and a J.D. from Harvard Law School. He clerked for Hon. James Hunter, III, of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit.

In the 1980's Jim served as Special Assistant to Hon. William H. Webster, Director of the FBI. He advised the Director on requests for electronic surveillance in criminal and domestic terrorism investigations and he reviewed all significant undercover operation proposals. He also advised on sensitive investigations and assisted in developing and implementing Bureau policies.

Jim has lectured extensively at regional and national conferences on trial practice and insurance coverage issues. He has served as Special Master in federal court in Seattle and teaches trial advocacy at the University of Washington School of Law. He has also served on the regional faculty of the National Institute for Trial Advocacy (NITA).