Jim died Feb. 8, 2018, in Los Angeles after a long battle with multiple myeloma.
At Princeton he was in the engineering school and specialized in basic engineering. He ate at Key and Seal and his senior-year roommates were Arveson, Holcomb, and Motes.
After Princeton, Jim earned a law degree from the University of Michigan. He clerked for two Supreme Court justices (Whittaker and Chief Justice Warren) before moving to the Department of Commerce, where he worked on the War on Poverty.
Jim then moved to Los Angeles, where he began a nationally prominent career in labor and employment law. He was a partner at Munger, Tolles & Olson and later at Irell & Manella.
After retiring from the full-time practice of law, he worked as an arbitrator and mediator, primarily of labor and commercial disputes, until his last days.
Jim served as an officer in many organizations and founded the board of the Congressional Office of Compliance. He served for more than 40 years on the Los Angeles County Commission for Public Social Services. His great nonprofit passions were Bet Tzedek Legal Services and the PLATO Society of Los Angeles, a lifelong-learning organization.
He is survived by his wife of 50 years, Sara; his sons, Michael, Philip, and Matthew; and grandchildren Bernhardt, Daniel, Jacob, Stella, and Isaac. The class extends its condolences to them all.