Jim Harrington is a member of the law department senior management committee which oversees a 140-person international law department and a member of the Pipeline management committee that oversees all Shire’s research and business development. He has managed complex patent litigation in many countries and is considered a leading expert in US Hatch-Waxman litigation. Before joining Shire in 2004 he spent five years in Belgium. He is a prolific writer and published a seminal treatise on forensic DNA testing, recently cited in a written opinion by the Arizona Supreme Court