Practice Areas
- Business Litigation & Risk Management
- Medical Malpractice Defense
Jim began his civil litigation practice in 1979 with the Gainesville law firm Whelchel, Dunlap & Gignilliat. In 1988, he and Weymon Forrester founded the firm Forrester & Brim, and for the next 29 years, specialized in the defense of a wide variety of civil lawsuits, including malpractice claims against physicians and other healthcare professionals.
Although Jim’s practice has concentrated mainly on the defense of medical malpractice and other personal injury claims, his clients also have included corporate entities in business disputes, private schools, lawyers in legal malpractice matters, and physicians in proceedings before the Composite Board of Medical Examiners.
Jim is a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers, and is a past President of the Gainesville-Northeastern Bar Association.
- Defense of physicians and other healthcare professionals in various specialties including: general surgery; orthopedics; neurosurgery; gastroenterology; urology; otolaryngology; radiology; internal medicine; pediatrics; emergency medicine; psychiatry; ophthalmology; and anesthesiology.
- Defense of personal injury and wrongful death claims asserted against individuals, corporate entities, and private schools.
- B.A., with high honors, Emory University, 1975
- J.D., cum laude, University of Georgia, 1979
- Fellow, American College of Trial Lawyers
- Georgia SuperLawyers designee
- Phi Beta Kappa
- Georgia Court of Appeals
- Georgia Supreme Court
- U.S. District Courts for the Northern, Middle, and Southern Districts of Georgia
- Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals
- State Bar of Georgia
- American College of Trial Lawyers
- Georgia Defense Lawyers Association
- Gainesville-Northeastern Bar Association (past President)
- Adjunct Faculty Member, Gainesville State College, 1989 – 2006
- Presentations to Georgia ICLE seminars and various health care organizations on litigation related subjects.