James Black

James M. Black II is a partner at Silverman Acampora, General Counsel to the firm and chair of its Government Contracts & Compliance Group. A 1986 graduate of Hofstra Law School, Jim has over 30 years experience in corporate and government compliance, government contracts, trade regulation and information technology. He has been in-house counsel for most of his career, serving as Senior Staff Counsel at Northrop Grumman's Data and Information Division, Vice President, Senior Counsel and Associate Chief Compliance Officer at CA Technologies and General Counsel and Chief Compliance at Overseas Military Sales Corporation. Jim has developed launched, and managed a worldwide export compliance protocol for a major software company with more than 1,000 products sold worldwide. Jim has created Codes of Conduct and established compliance help lines for his clients. This includes review of all submissions, investigation of each incident and reports to executive management and Board Audit Committees. He can develop customized government and corporate compliance programs as well as training courses for company personnel on key compliance issues. In addition Jim has experience in dealing with issues related to privacy, especially the EU General Data Privacy Regulation (GDPR) and the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) as well as other government acquisition and trade rules and regulations. A frequent lecturer on corporate and government compliance issues, Jim is an adjunct professor at the Maurice Deane School of Law where he teaches Corporate Compliance and Ethics and has served as a visiting professor at the Naval Postgraduate School, where he taught courses in Government Contracts. He is a member of the New York State Bar Association Committee on Attorney Professionalism and the Nassau County Bar Association Ethics Committee and the Board of Directors of the Long Island Import Export Association. Jim is a member the Catholic Lawyer's Guild and a Knight Commander of the Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem. Jim is Vice President for North America and a United Nations Delegate of the World Jurist Association and a member of the Board of Directors of the World Law Foundation.