In March, 10,000 Couples’ associate editor Heidi Mann published a profile of Jimmy regarding his role in bringing the “It Gets Better” videos to the stage. Read an excerpt of the article here and read the entire article on the 10,000 Couples web site.

You’ve all heard of the It Gets Better Project™. But how about the it gets better Tour? The latter is fresh off a successful month of life-changing performances. Tour representatives expressed excitement prior to the multi-city run “that the performances [would] initially be in communities where LGBT youth can be particularly isolated, and where the ‘it gets better’ message is so desperately needed.”  Read more...

Jimmy authored the following piece for Dot Complicated, the new e-newsletter and web site from Randi Zuckerberg. This article, published in February, focuses on how community engagement helped bring “It Gets Better” to the stage and to audiences around the country.  Read more...

 ”Jimmy Nguyen was born in Vietnam and has become a vocal LGBT rights activist, frequently writing blog posts for The Advocate, where he talks about the intersection of the gay and Asian communities. Nguyen, a lawyer, was named to The Advocate’s “Forty Under 40″ list in 2010.”

By John Ryan Excerpted from article originally published on Lawdragon.com and in the Los Angeles Daily News, April 30, 2009

To call James Nguyen a “dynamo” is an understatement. The Saigon-born partner at the Beverly Hills office of Wildman Harrold Allen & Dixon has always possessed a boundless energy. He skipped 7th grade, graduated high school at 16 and finished UCLA in three years. By the time he finished USC law school and passed the bar, Jimmy was just 23 years old.  Read more...

First Posted on Advocate.com

Jimmy Nguyen didn’t set out to destroy the credibility of erstwhile Miss California USA and conservative spokeswoman Carrie Prejean – it just happened. “I simply wanted to represent my client well,” says Nguyen, a law partner in the Beverly Hills office of Wildman, Harrold, Allen, and Dixon LLP, who defended the pageant organization against Prejean’s claim that she had been wrongfully terminated for her religious views.  Read more...

By David Tsai, Townsend and Townsend and Crew LLP

Article originally published in California Minority Counsel Program Newsletter May/June 2010 for Asian-Pacific American Heritage Month and LGBT Pride Month

Jimmy Nguyen is a partner in the Beverly Hills office of Wildman, Harrold, Allen & Dixon LLP. His “360 degree”practice encompasses counseling, transactions and litigation of intellectual property, entertainment, new media, technology, advertising & sports matters. A change agent, Jimmy does innovative work in IP and new media, and advances change in organizations to which he devotes time – including the California Minority Counsel Program.  Read more...

May/June 2010

Jimmy Nguyen: Nationally-Recognized Award-Winning Asian-Pacific American Lawyer, Evolving Media Expert, LGBT Activist, Diversity Advocate, and Thought Leader.

May 2010 – Jimmy Nguyen didn’t set out to destroy the credibility of erstwhile Miss California USA and conservative spokeswoman Carrie Prejean—it just happened.

“I simply wanted to represent my client well,” says Nguyen, a law partner in the Beverly Hills office of Wildman, Harrold, Allen, and Dixon LLP, who defended the pageant organization against Prejean’s claim that she had been wrongfully terminated for her religious views.

Prejean, of course, became the conservative movement’s poster child for a hot minute when she stood up for “opposite marriage” while answering a question in the Miss USA pageant.  Read more...

April 30, 2009 – To call James Nguyen a “dynamo” is an understatement.

The Saigon-born partner at the Beverly Hills office of Wildman Harrold Allen & Dixon has always possessed a boundless energy.

He skipped 7th grade, graduated high school at 16 and finished UCLA in three years.

By the time he finished USC law school and passed the bar, Jimmy was just 23 years old.

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