James Jackson Storrow (July 29, 1837 – April 15, 1897) was an American patent attorney who represented Venezuela during the crisis of 1895.
[1] On September 12, 1873, Storrow married Anne Amory Dexter at Boston's Trinity Church in a ceremony performed by Phillips Brooks.
[1] Storrow and Benjamin Robbins Curtis represented William Beach Lawrence in his long-running copyright infringement lawsuit against Richard Henry Dana Jr.[5] He was the chief legal advisor for American Bell Telephone and represented the company in The Telephone Cases, a series of court cases in the 1870s and the 1880s related to the invention of the telephone, which culminated in the Supreme Court of the United States upholding the patents belonging to Alexander Graham Bell.
[5][6] In 1875, Storrow represented Sidney Dillon before the U.S. Supreme Court in his suit against the trustees of Boston, Hartford and Erie Railroad.
[1] In 1896, at the recommendation of his Harvard Law classmate Richard Olney, Storrow was hired as an associate counsel to William Lindsay Scruggs, who was representing Venezuela in its border dispute with British Guiana.