James P. Moorhead manages a national commercial real estate practice and currently focuses on purchase and sales, leasing, and real estate parts of M&A deals. Selected as one of the 40 Illinois Attorneys Under Forty to Watch in 2011, he advises C-Level executives of national and regional companies on strategy, project formation, negotiation, and deal execution.
His experience includes land use, natural resource, water, and environmental law, and he has completed transactions in virtually every U.S. state, with a total value in excess of $1 billion. Typical clients include retail, financial services, manufacturing, industrial, technology, transportation, energy, law firm, consulting, and restaurant businesses.
Prior to law school, Jamie held a manager-level position with the then-top ranked men's professional cycling team in the world and in the last twelve years has competed in 25+ triathlons, two marathons, and various running and cross-country skiing races. He continued his interest in cycling by organizing a panel discussion in 2007 with Greg LeMond and the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency to help combat performance doping in cycling.
Jamie attended Georgetown University and graduated in 1994 with a double major in English and Classics. He earned his Juris Doctor from Loyola University Chicago School of Law in 1999, where he was Editor-in-Chief of the Public Interest Law Reporter and won the CALI Award for the highest grade in Constitutional Law. During law school, Jamie studied for part of a summer at Vermont Law School's Environmental Law Center and clerked at the Natural Heritage Institute in San Francisco.