Kirkland & Ellis LLP

James Gillespie is a litigation partner in the Washington, D.C., office of Kirkland & Ellis. He joined Kirkland in 1991 and has been a partner since 1994. James has acted as lead trial and appellate counsel in a wide variety of complex commercial and class action litigation matters. The subject matter of these cases has included corporate governance & shareholder litigation, consumer class actions, insurance coverage disputes, ERISA, RICO, antitrust, and securities.

James was law clerk to the Honorable George E. MacKinnon, U.S. Court of Appeals, District of Columbia Circuit, from 1988 to 1989.

University of Notre Dame Law School, J.D., 1988 (Editor, Notre Dame Law Review, 1987-1988); Grinnell College, B.A., 1985.