Current Employment Position(s)

Counsel

Languages

• Portuguese

Lawyer Overview

Jim Dunlop practices chiefly in the area of corporate internal investigations, grand jury matters, and parallel or related regulatory and civil proceedings. He represents organizations and individuals in such matters and provides advice to companies on federal and state compliance matters arising under various statutes and regulations, including the Federal Sentencing Guidelines for Organizations, the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, Sarbanes-Oxley, export control, and campaign finance laws.

Jim has represented individual clients as diverse as board-level corporate executives, legal and accounting professionals, and public officials, as targets or witnesses in a wide variety of federal grand jury proceedings and trials, including antitrust investigations; accounting, bank, computer, wire, and mail fraud, investigations; allegations of export control violations; public corruption investigations of city aldermen and state officials; investigations of alleged environmental crimes; and health care fraud investigations. In addition, Jim has represented clients in civil and administrative investigations brought by the SEC and CFTC of alleged securities and commodities fraud, by state investigators examining allegations of public utility accounting fraud and by foreign governments investigating alleged corruption in the privatization of national assets.

Jim returned to Jones Day in 2003 after serving as special assistant attorney general for the commonwealth of Virginia, where he represented the University of Virginia in litigation and public policy matters, and after serving as counsel to a global professional services firm, where he managed legal risk for its systems, health care, financial services, and other nonaudit business consulting service categories. Jim is a member of: the Criminal Law and Corporate Law Sections of the Federalist Society, the Federal Bar Association, The Chicago Bar Association, and the Chicago Council on Foreign Relations.

Areas of Practice

• Corporate Criminal Investigations

Representative Cases

• S. Mcsparran and L. Ulrich, derivatively on behalf of Career Education Corp, v. J. M. Larson, P. K. Pesch, W. O. Laub, K. K. Ogata, D. H. Chookaszian, R. E. Dowdell, T. B. Lally, N. Fluge, J. P. Gruver, T. H. Steele, Case No. 04 C 0041 (N.D. Ill)
• Albert Said, derivatively on behalf of Bally Total Fitness Holding Corporation v. P. A. Toback, L. S. Hillman, J. W. Dwyer, S. C. Swid, T. Noncek, G. Sheitlin, M. E. Franklin, J. F. McAnally, J. W. Rogers, J. K. Looloian, G. N. Arnoff, and A. C. Lewis
• Internal Investigation of Accounting Irregularities
• Securities Fraud and Conspiracy Prosecution

West Practice Categories

Criminal Fraud, Criminal Law, Federal, Felonies, Grand Jury Proceedings, Victims' Rights, White Collar Crimes

Bar Admissions

• Illinois

Education

• U of Virginia- C'ville (Main)

Address

77 West Wacker
Chicago, IL 60601-1692

Phones

1.312.269.4069 (Business Phone)

Faxes

1.312.782.8585 (Business Fax)

Emails

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Websites

http://www.jonesday.com