Jim Calloway retired from his position as Director of the Oklahoma Bar Association Management Assistance Program where he has served for 28 years in 2025. He received his Juris Doctorate from the University of Oklahoma, where he was named to the Oklahoma Law Review. He publishes the law blog Jim Calloway’s Law Practice Tips (http://www.lawpracticetipsblog.com) and has served as co-author of three American Bar Association books on law practice management, including two on alternative billing.

Mr. Calloway is a member of the Oklahoma Bar Association and the American Bar Association, where he served as chair of ABA TECHSHOW 2005 and has been selected to be a speaker at ABA TECHSHOW more than 20 times. He is a member of the ABA Law Practice Division’s Law Practice Magazine editorial board and wrote the Practice Management Advice column for that magazine for five years and was awarded the Law Practice Division’s Robert P. Wilkens Award in recognition of Best Column in Division Publications in 2015. He is also currently a member of the LP Division’s Ethics and Professionalism Committee, Legal Technology Resource Center Committee and its Law Firm Finance Committee.

Jim was honored with a Lifetime Achievement Award at the American Legal & Technology Awards Gala 2025.

He was awarded the William G. Paul Oklahoma Justice Award from Legal Aid Services of Oklahoma, Inc. in November 2018 for his work on access to justice projects, including assisting in developing rules for limited scope legal services delivery in Oklahoma.

Jim was inducted as a Fellow of the College of Law Practice Management and is a member of the ABA Solo, Small Firm and General Practice Division and the Practice Management Advisors of North America. He is a former President of the Cleveland County (Oklahoma) Bar Association.

He and Sharon Nelson retired their monthly podcast, The Digital Edge: Lawyers and Technology, at the end of 2023, after a run of many years.

Jim has made hundreds of presentations on law office management, legal technology, legal ethics and law firm business operations.