James Corning
Senior Corporate Counsel
Redmond, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJames Corning is a Senior Corporate Counsel at Microsoft with 12 years of legal experience advising media, retail, and tech companies on IP, digital content, marketing, payments, and antitrust matters. A former commercial litigator and U.S. District Court law clerk, he combines courtroom-honed advocacy with deal-side pragmatism, negotiating complex commercial agreements for startups through Fortune 5s. He brings rare technical fluency for a lawyer—having worked as a program manager/BI developer—so he partners effectively with engineers to shepherd emerging products to market. As an adjunct law professor, he also translates practice into teaching, reflecting a commitment to mentorship and legal education. Colleagues value his creativity and business-centric problem solving grounded in rigorous legal ethics. Based in Redmond, he blends deep IP and marketing law expertise with a genuine product-focused mindset that helps teams move quickly and compliantly.
12 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
B.A., B.A. at University of WashingtonAA, AA at Seattle Central CollegeJuris Doctor, Juris Doctor at Seattle University School of Law
Github Skills (13)
azure10
microsoft-azure10
microsoft9
azure-devops5
non-interactive2
teamcity2
aspnet-web-api2
azuread1
azure-active-directory1
powerapps1
windows-desktop1
authentication1
translation1
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
jamescon/azure-docs
Jan 2020 - Jan 2020
Open source documentation of Microsoft Azure
Contributions:1 push in 1 day
microsoft-azureazuremicrosoftwebview2
jamescon/skills
Feb 2026 - Feb 2026
Contributions:2 pushes in 1 day
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