James P. Kimmel, Jr., J.D. has appeared before courts across the United States on behalf of a wide variety of clients, from indigent families seeking food stamps and prisoners seeking better conditions of confinement to some of the wealthiest individuals and largest corporations in the world. Recognized as an expert in written advocacy and legal analysis, Attorney Kimmel has been retained as a consultant by hundreds of lawyers and law firms to assist them in developing legal strategies and drafting legal arguments. Attorney Kimmel is also a leader in integrating law and spirituality, resolving conflicts through the practice of nonjustice, and reforming the justice system.

Attorney Kimmel received his doctorate in jurisprudence from the University of Pennsylvania, where he was a member of the University of Pennsylvania Law Review. He receive his B.S. degree summa cum laude from the Pennsylvania State University as a University Scholar. Licensed to practice law in Pennsylvania and New Jersey, he served an internship with the Philadelphia District Attorney's office, a judicial clerkship with a United States federal trial court judge and practiced in the area of complex civil litigation for two of the most prestigious law firms in the United States. He is the founder of CiteTheLaw, Inc, a legal consulting company; the founder of the Nonjustice Foundation, a nonprofit organization dedicated to peaceful conflict resolution; and the founder of Kimmel PeaceLaw LLC, the leading resource for information, products, and conflict resolution services integrating law and spirituality. Attorney Kimmel maintains a private legal practice in the suburbs of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. In addition, Attorney Kimmel holds a United States patent as the inventor of the first automated legal research assignment and ordering system.

Attorney Kimmel's literary works include the book Suing For Peace: A Guide For Resolving Life's Conflicts (Without Lawyers, Guns Or Money) (Hampton Roads Publishing, 2005); the forthcoming novel NEVAEH (a semi-finalist for the University of Tennessee Press/Peter Taylor Prize for the Novel); the short story The Tokamak (a semi-finalist for the William Faulkner Creative Writing Award); and the forthcoming illustrated children's book The Old Architect (recipient of an Honorable Mention in the Writer's Digest Writing Competition). He is also an editor of Handbook of Federal Judicial Practices and Procedures (West 1996), the author of Disclosing the Environmental Impact of Human Activities, 138 U. Pa. L. Rev. 505 (1989), and an author and co-author of hundreds of published and unpublished legal briefs, legal articles, and judicial opinions.

Attorney Kimmel is a member of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers). His rich and varied spiritual background includes experiences in evangelical Christian churches (where his grandfather was a preacher), two near misses at becoming an Episcopal priest himself, attending Buddhist meditation retreats, and stops along the way to study Hinduism, Taoism and Judaism. He is a scholar of the world's religions and justice systems, a peace witness and a homeless advocate.

"I had learnt the true practice of law. I had learnt to find out the better side of human nature and to enter men's hearts. I realized that the true function of a lawyer was to unite parties riven asunder. The lesson was so indelibly burnt into me that a large part of my time during the twenty years of my practice as a lawyer was occupied in bringing about private compromises of hundreds of cases. I lost nothing thereby--not even money, certainly not my soul."