KAMAL GHALI

 
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Phone  404.881.4143
Fax  404.881.4111
Email  ghali@bmelaw.com
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Kamal Ghali handles high-stakes business disputes that require sophisticated litigation strategies.  He represents plaintiffs and defendants in cases involving breach of contract, business torts, LLC/member disputes, fraud, Georgia R.I.C.O., misappropriation of trade secrets, and intellectual property disputes, including patent litigation.
 
Kamal has particular experience with federal litigation having served as a federal law clerk for three years to two federal judges: the Honorable Frank M. Hull, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit and the Honorable Thomas W. Thrash, Jr., U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia, Atlanta Division. 

Kamal graduated from the University of Michigan Law School, magna cum laude, Order of the Coif, and was a Note Editor for the Michigan Law Review.  He received his B.A. from Emory University, magna cum laude, where he was President of Emory’s National Champion Debate Team, the Alben W. Barkley Forum.  Kamal is nationally ranked, along with his college debate partner, as the best college debate team of the last decade (2000-2009).  He is a former Harvard University and Emory University debate coach.

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)

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)

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)

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 Memorial Foundation, Advisory Board
Young Lawyers Division Leadership Academy
L.E.A.D. Atlanta

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

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