James C. Browning

James is a Deputy General Counsel and Vice President of Stifel Financial Corp.  Previously, he served as a Vice President and Senior Litigation Counsel with Wells Fargo Advisors, LLC., formerly Wachovia Securities, following the acquisition of A.G. Edwards & Sons, Inc.  Before joining A.G. Edwards & Sons, Inc. James was a corporate law associate with Blackwell, Sanders, Peper, Martin, LLP. In his various roles, he specializes in representing his firm and its employees in arbitration and court, as well as before state, federal and SRO regulators, and he assists the firm in hiring brokers and handling raiding and recruiting matters.  James graduated from University of Missouri-Columbia and spent a year in Romania at the University of Sibiu in Transylvania, studying economic development on a United States Information Agency grant. He received his J.D. from Washington University School of Law in St. Louis, where he was a Notes Editor for the Law Quarterly, and he is licensed to practice law in Missouri, Illinois and Florida.