Join us for the monthly Luncheon Meeting on November 19, 2026
12:00 to 1:00 p.m. - Rotunda
Free to NPBA Members; $30.00 Non-Members
Registration includes a boxed lunch and water.
Speaker: Jim Wheaton - Director of William & Mary Law's Special Education Advocacy Clinic, Clinical Professor of Law
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Jim Wheaton is a Clinical Professor of Law at William & Mary Law School. He also directs that school’s Special Education Advocacy Clinic.
Before moving to law school teaching, Jim had a career as a public company general counsel and partner and national practice group leader at Troutman Sanders (now Troutman Pepper Locke) LLP. He previously practiced at Willcox Savage. He also taught adjunct business entity courses at the University of Virginia and William and Mary Law Schools. Wheaton’s legal practice focused on corporate and securities law. He represented companies in startup, M&A and general corporate work, and issuers and underwriters in public and private securities transactions.
Wheaton received his law degree from the University of Virginia School of Law, where he was Executive Editor of the Virginia Law Review. Following law school, he clerked for Judge J. Dickson Phillips, Jr. of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit.
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