Mr. Hughes, a resident of Aspen, Colorado, is the author of Family Wealth: Keeping It in the Family, and of Family – The Compact Among Generations, both published by Bloomberg Press, and is the co-author with Susan Massenzio and Keith Whitaker of The Cycle of the Gift: Family Wealth and Wisdom and The Voice of the Rising Generation, both published by John Wiley & Sons and is a co-author with Hartley Goldstone and Keith Whitaker of Family Trusts: A Guide to Trustees, Beneficiaries, Advisors and Protectors".  In addition, he has written numerous articles on family governance and wealth preservation and a series of Reflections which can be found on his website jamesehughes.com.   He was the founder of a law partnership in New York City specializing in the representation of private clients throughout the world and is now retired from the active practice of law.  He has spoken frequently at numerous international and domestic symposia on the avoidance of the shirtsleeves to shirtsleeves proverb and the growth of families’ human, intellectual, social, spiritual and financial capitals toward their families’ flourishing.  He has authored various Forwards to multiple published works and has been cited in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal and various professional journals.  

 

He is a member of boards of various private trust companies, an advisor to numerous investment institutions, and a member of a number of private philanthropic boards.  Mr. Hughes was a partner of the law firms of Coudert Brothers and Jones, Day, Reavis and Pogue.  He is a graduate of the Far Brook School, which teaches through the Arts, The Pingry School, Princeton University and The Columbia School of Law.  He is a counselor to the Family Office Exchange and recipient of its Founder’s Award.