KAMAL GHALI

Antitrust Appellate Business Torts Class Actions Commercial Litigation Corporate Governance Employment & Civil Rights Environmental Litigation False Claims Act Intellectual Property Internal Investigations Professional Liability RICO White Collar Crime

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Phone 404.881.4143
Fax 404.881.4111
Email ghali@bmelaw.com

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Kamal Ghali represents individuals and companies in high stakes business disputes and other sensitive matters. He has litigated cases involving breach of contract, fraud, false advertising, RICO, business torts, the Lanham Act, and various intellectual property matters, including misappropriation of trade secrets and patent litigation.

He has represented clients before federal courts, state courts, and the International Centre for Dispute Resolution.

Representative Cases

Represented Fortune 100 company in two-week arbitration proceeding in New York City arising out of breach of contract dispute.
Represented Fortune 50 company in intellectual property dispute with a former model.
Representing pharmaceutical company in litigation involving Lanham Act and fraud claims.
Represented student-athlete in confidential NCAA investigation of university football team.
Represented a law firm in an LLC/membership dispute with former employee.
Local counsel to Las Vegas-based technology company in patent infringement action pending in federal court.
Represented clients before the Georgia Supreme Court.
Won resentencing and release of federal inmate in pro bono matter where inmate was originally sentenced to 20 years in prison. Persuaded the district court to reverse its prior ruling denying the inmate’s pro se 28 U.S.C. § 2255 petition; instead of serving 10 more years in prison, the inmate was released virtually immediately. See United States v. Neko C. Brown, No. 2:02-00045 (N.D. Ga. Jun. 3, 2010) (O’Kelley, J.).

Judicial Clerkships

Law Clerk, Judge Frank M. Hull, U.S. Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit (2008-2009)
Law Clerk, Judge Thomas W. Thrash, Jr., U. S. District Court, Northern District of Georgia (2006-2008)

Education

The University of Michigan Law School (J.D., magna cum laude)
     Order of the Coif
     Note Editor, Michigan Law Review
     Research Assistant, Professor Neal K. Katyal
Emory University (B.A., magna cum laude)
     President, Alben W. Barkley Forum
     National Debate Tournament Finalist, 1999, 2001
     Ranked Best College Debate Team of the Decade (1999-2009)

Publications

A Procedural Rule and a Substantive Problem: Legislative Hawks and the Concentration of Power in Georgia’s Speaker of the House, 117 Yale L.J. Pocket Part 210 (2008) (The article was the subject of several news articles, political commentaries, and cited by Georgia Gubernatorial candidate Rep. Dubose Porter as a basis for repealing House Rule 11.1’s creation of “Legislative Hawks.” Early in the 2010 legislative session, Speaker of the House David Ralston of the Georgia General Assembly succeeded in repealing the rule.).

No Slavery Except as a Punishment for Crime: The Punishment Clause and Sexual Slavery, 55 U.C.L.A L. Rev. 607 (2008).

Memberships

Truman National Security Project, Fellow
Glenn Pelham Foundation, Advisory Board
L.E.A.D. Atlanta
YLD Leadership Academy
Atlanta Council of Younger Lawyers, Member-at-Large

Admitted

State Bar of Georgia
Georgia Court of Appeals
Georgia Supreme Court
U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit

Prior Experience

Debate Coach, Harvard University (2001-2002)
Debate Coach, Emory University (2002-2003)