James FitzSimons

Mr. James FitzSimons was a partner of Clayton Utz (CU) for 22 years before deciding to move into the business world. Whilst at CU he served on the Council of the Tokyo based Inter-Pacific Bar Association, the premier organisation for commercial lawyers in APAC, and was President of the IPBA in 2006-07. He continues to practise law at international firm Bird & Bird, and he is consistently rated as one of Australia’s leading lawyers in his field of IT/IP law (He has a second degree in computer science and worked as a programmer/analyst in Canada before embarking on his legal career). One of his business interests is a company which is active in the placement of international students around the world which gives him a broad-ranging understanding of international education.