James M. Burger

Jim Burger is a member of the law firm of Dow Lohnes specializing in representation of technology companies on intellectual property, communications and government policy matters. Mr. Burger joined the firm's Media, Information and Technologies group in January, 1997. Prior to that, Mr. Burger was a Senior Director in Apple Computer's Law Department. During the nine years he was at Apple, Mr. Burger had a variety of assignments, including representing Apple's Advanced Technology Group, USA Field Sales organizations, and World-Wide Operations and Manufacturing, as well as General Counsel for Europe and Latin America and responsible for world wide government affairs. In addition, from 1991 until 1996, he was Chair of the Information Technology Industry Council's Proprietary Rights Committee.

Mr. Burger has worked extensively on legal and policy issues arising from the confluence of digital technology, intellectual property protection and government regulation, particularly as affecting the Internet. Mr. Burger has participated in resolving such complex issues as DVD copy protection and digital download of music - representing the Computer Industry Group in negotiations developing the DVD Content Scrambling System copy protection rules as well as the Secure Digital Music Initiative. In addition, he has been engaged in such matters as the efforts to amend copyright law from leading the negotiations to exclude the computer industry from the Audio Home Recording Act, to avoid passage of the Digital Video Recording Act and to accommodate the protection of intellectual property on the Internet as well as the efforts to change the encryption export rules to protect digital communications.

A native of New York City, he received his Bachelors (with Honors), Masters and Law (cum laude) degrees from New York University School of Law, where he served as an editor of the NYU Law Journal. For seven years, he was an adjunct professor at University of Virginia Law School, where he taught Advanced Administrative law.

Dow Lohnes serves as a strategic partner with its clients in a number of dynamic industries including communications and traditional media, new media, information technology, education, healthcare and real estate, among others.  Dow Lohnes’s service offerings have grown as its clients’ businesses have become more complex and demanding.  With offices in Washington, DC and Atlanta, the firm has over 150 lawyers and professionals supported by extensive resources and a considerable depth of experience. Dow Lohnes possesses the strength of a large Washington-based regulatory practice as well as a sophisticated business and transactional law practice.  Together with litigation, intellectual property, tax and human resources practices, the firm offers a comprehensive array of legal services. Above all, Dow Lohnes is committed to working in partnership with its clients and providing them with superior legal counsel.