Jim has been a partner in one international law firm, and worked closely with two others in his capacity as a solo practitioner. Jim served in the administrations of Presidents Carter (Legal Advisor to the Chairman of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission) and Clinton (Special Assistant to the President and Associate Director of Presidential Personnel). His domestic and international work includes in broadly in energy and broadband communications.

Jim’s assignments have taken him to India, Russia, China and Norway. He is the Corporate Secretary of the United States-Algerian Business Council, an organization he co-founded in 2002. He is a co-founder and director of a life science tool company and has been the Deputy General Counsel for Fortune 500 and Fortune 1000 corporations, as well as R&D Vice President of the United States (Uranium) Enrichment Corporation. His government service has included as Chairman’s Assistant at the Wisconsin Public Service Commission; Assistant Wisconsin Attorney General; and as Oklahoma’s State Conservation Attorney and General Counsel for the Oklahoma State Corporation Commission.

Bailey was an Army Infantry Officer and earned his B.A. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and his J.D. from Marquette University Law School, Milwaukee.

He is admitted to practice before the United States Supreme Court; United States Federal Circuit Court; various Federal District Courts; United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, Third and Seventh Circuits; and the State Courts of Wisconsin, District of Columbia and Oklahoma.