James Freedman

Before joining Google, James was Senior Counsel, Legal & Business Affairs, at Warner Bros. Entertainment, supporting the technology department. In addition to creating templates and negotiating commercial agreements, he managed the company’s global terms of service, e-signature and web accessibility policies, and DMCA safe harbor compliance.

Earlier in his career, James clerked for Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers, U.S. District Court, Northern District of California, and was an intellectual property litigator based in Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe’s Silicon Valley office.

James is a graduate of Johns Hopkins University and Stanford Law School. At Stanford, he was the Stanford Law Review’s inaugural Senior Online Editor, on the executive board of the Stanford Technology Law Review, and Co-President of the Stanford Law & Technology Association. He externed for Associate Justice Joyce L. Kennard of the California Supreme Court and was the 2011 recipient of the American Intellectual Property Law Association’s Robert C. Watson Award. Before law school, he was a journalist and an editor at The Huffington Post.