James W. Hundley

Jim Hundley has over 30 years of experience litigating complex criminal and civil cases. He regularly represents individuals and corporations before state and federal courts in Virginia, Washington, D.C., and Maryland. He has defended clients involved in a broad range of criminal matters including bank fraud, bid rigging, bribery, embezzlement, tax evasion, and computer fraud. On the civil side, Mr. Hundley has successfully handled cases involving a wide variety of issues including breach of contract, tortious interference with business, theft of trade secrets, personal injury, and violations of civil rights.

Mr. Hundley also has extensive appellate experience. In April 2000, he was privileged to appear before the Supreme Court of the United States and argue the case of Dickerson v. United States in which the Court ruled that the well-known Miranda warnings are required by the United States Constitution and cannot be repealed by legislation. Dickerson v. United States, 530 U.S. 428 (2000). He has also appeared numerous times before the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, the Supreme Court of Virginia, and the Court of Appeals of Virginia.

Mr. Hundley graduated from the Georgetown Law Center and gained admission to the Virginia State Bar in 1989. During his first year of practice, Mr. Hundley served as law clerk to the Honorable James C. Cacheris in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia. Upon completing his clerkship, Mr. Hundley joined the Office of the Commonwealth’s Attorney for Fairfax County, where he served as an Assistant Commonwealth’s Attorney until December 1996. In January 1997, Mr. Hundley co-founded Briglia Hundley®.

Mr. Hundley has received the Martindale-Hubbell Law Directory’s highest rating of “AV.” He is recognized as a top attorney by Super Lawyers in the field of criminal defense and by Best Lawyers in the field of white-collar criminal defense.

Mr. Hundley is an active member of the Virginia State Bar. In July of 2022, Mr. Hundley was appointed by the Virginia Supreme Court to serve as an at-large member of the Virginia State Bar Council, the governing body of the State Bar. He was appointed to the Virginia State Bar’s Committee on Lawyer Discipline in 2014 and completed the maximum six-years of service in 2020. During his tenure, he served as Chairman of the Committee for one year and Chairman of the Rules Subcommittee for two years. From 2005 to 2011, Mr. Hundley was an elected member of the Virginia State Bar’s Disciplinary Sub-Committee for the Fifth District. He also has been active in the Fairfax Bar Association, serving on its judicial screening committee, Circuit Court Committee, General District Court Committee, as Co-chairman of its Legislative Committee, and as Chairman of its Election Committee.

Mr. Hundley regularly lectures at Continuing Legal Education courses. He has also appeared as a guest lecturer at the Georgetown Law Center, the George Washington School of Law, the Catholic University School of Law, the Scalia Law School at George Mason University, and the Washington, D.C. Inns of Court.