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Omar Mohammedi, Esq. is the Managing Partner of the Law Firm of Omar T. Mohammedi. He obtained his law degree from Tlemcen University, Algeria in 1985. He graduated in the top 5% of the nation's lawyer's population and received a scholarship for further legal education in Europe. Omar Mohammedi obtained an LL.M. degree in International Business and Investment Law from Cambridge and Warwick Universities, England in 1989. He further pursued his legal career in the United States where he obtained his Law degree in International Business and Trade Law from Fordham Law School in 1995. Mr. Mohammedi graduated Magna Cum Laude. He is the recipient of the Barry Hawk International Antitrust Award. Mr. Mohammedi's stellar legal education has been complemented with a solid professional career.

On October 2002 Omar Mohammedi was appointed by Mayor Michael Bloomberg to become the first Muslim and Arab New York City Commissioner on Human Rights. One of Mr. Mohammedi's responsibilities is to enforce the New York City Human Rights Law.
Omar Mohammedi is a member of The New York Bar and admitted to practice before the Southern District Court, Eastern District Court and the United States Court of International Trade. He is also admitted to practice Law in Algeria.

Omar Mohammedi established his Law Firm in 1998. He has since focused on various commercial and international trade, investment and business transactions, as well as civil itigation. Mr. Mohammedi has litigated high profile civil cases, namely, Diallo v. City of New York, et al. and Tiffany v. Tartaglione, et al. He is presently respresenting various Muslim organizations in the MDL 9/11 lawsuit before the Southern District of New York . He has advised and defended clients against employment discrimination. He is presently representing Muslim women against the MTA for religious discrimination.

Before establishing his own Law Firm, Mr. Mohammedi worked at Shearman & Sterling and Anderson Kill & Olick. Mr. Mohammedi was a member of a high powered litigation team and handled numerous high profile cases such as American Employers' Ins. Co., et al. v. Elf Atochem North American, et al.,

Mr. Mohammedi is working with the Algerian lawyers and the Ministry of Justice on developing commercial law principles and training legal professionals on international commecial law practices and standard. He has lectured the Algerian companies on international agreements affecting trade and investment in Algeria.

Omar Mohammedi is active in many legal and professional Associations. He is a member of the Association of the Bar of New York City and served on the International Trade Committee. He headed the Subcommittee on Trade and the Environment, which published an article on Tuna-Dolphin Dispute. Omar Mohammedi is a Founder of the Association of Muslim American Lawyers ("AMAL") He is the Founder and former Chairman of the 9/11 Coalition for Human and Civil Rights.

Omar Mohammedi has lectured the legal and business communities at numerous domestic and international conferences. He has lectured on legal issues involving international business and investment contracts, arbitration, not-for-profit law, comparative law, defamation and civil ltigation.

 

Ally Hack attained his Juris Doctor from the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, Yeshiva University, in 2004. While in law school, Mr. Hack served on the Arts and Entertainment Law Journal and was published in Cardozo's Law and Public Policy journal.[1]

Mr. Hack began working at the Law Firm of Omar T. Mohammedi, LLC, in the autumn of 2004 where he practiced employment law, commercial law and civil rights law before New York Federal Courts, State Courts, and at arbitration hearings.

Mr. Hack is currently an associate at Belkin Burden Wenig & Goldman, LLP, where he practices in the litigation department litigating cases having to do with real estate and commercial issues.

Mr. Hack has been a board member of AMAL since 2004.

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 Mohamed H. Shiliwala, Esq.

 

Mohamed H. Shiliwala, Esq. is a transactional attorney practicing in Real Estate, Trademark and Corporate Law in the Newark office of K&L Gates. In his work as a trainer for COMPASS, MSA National's management training program, Mohamed developed specialized experience in communicating with campus administrations, developing creative events with diverse member participation, and easing tensions within an organization and between organizations. Mohamed graduated cum laude from Seton Hall University School of Law in 2007 and as a Ben Franklin Scholar from the University of Pennsylvania in 2003 with a double major in biology and biological basis of behavior. While in school Mohamed served as President of the Seton Hall Law MSA, Senator in the Student Bar Association, and Executive Board Member of the UPenn MSA. He lives with his wife in NJ.

 

Atheeb Khateeb earned his J.D. from St. John’s University School of Law in 2009.  He graduated magna cum laude from The College of New Jersey with a major in Business Administration and a minor in Law, Politics, and Philosophy.  At St. John’s, Mr. Khateeb was the President of the Tax Law Society, executive board member of the Muslim Law Student Association, and a member of the Elder Law Clinic representing senior citizen clients in consumer fraud, foreclosures and other related issues. 

 

Mr. Khateeb is currently an associate at Cabanillas & Associates, P.C., where he practices in the areas of foreclosure defense litigation, real estate transactions, and bankruptcy.

 

He has been a board member of AMAL since 2008.

 

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Adeeb Fadil, Esq.

Board Member

Adeeb Fadil is Senior Counsel at Simpson Thacher, where he is a member of the Firm's Corporate Department and Environmental Practice Group. He focuses on environmental aspects of transactions including acquisitions, divestitures, loans, securities offerings, and bankruptcies and restructurings, for a wide range of the firm’s clients, as well as on environmental liability management, compliance counseling, and dispute resolution.

His experience covers transactions, often with significant cross-border aspects, in many industries, including: electrical power, oil and gas exploration, coal and other mining, oil refining, chemicals and specialty chemicals, steel, pulp and paper, equipment and parts manufacturing, plastics, glass, pharmaceuticals, textiles, transportation including airlines and railroads, publishing, telecommunications, food raising and processing, food services, home building, property development and brownfield re-development, hospitality, health care, and retail and other service industries. He recently handled environmental aspects of the firm’s representation of Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. and TPG, in their acquisition of TXU and related financings; The Blackstone Group, in its investment in China National Bluestar, its acquisition of Pinnacle Foods Group Inc., and its buyout of Hilton Hotels Corporation; ITT Corporation, in its merger with EDO Corporation and in the sale of its switches business; Owens-Illinois, in the sale of its plastics business to Rexam PLC; Barr Pharmaceuticals, in its acquisition of Pliva, d.d.; JPMorgan, Deutsche Bank, and Goldman Sachs in their financing the reorganization plan of Mirant North America (notes offering and senior secured credit facilities); and Royal Bank of Canada, in its financing the reorganization plan of Wheeling Pittsburgh Steel Corporation (secured credit facilities). He was also involved in the firm’s successfully obtaining the dismissal recently, in federal district court, of a suit challenging construction of the Longview power plant in West Virginia, financed by firm client First Reserve.

Mr. Fadil has been recognized for environmental law in Chambers & Partners’ Chambers USA (since 2003), Woodward/White’s The Best Lawyers in America (since 2005), Practical Law Company’s Cross-border Environment Handbook (since 2006), Law Business Research’s The International Who’s Who of Environment Lawyers (since 2007), and other publications. He currently chairs the International Environmental Law Committee of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York. For many years he has served on the Board of Directors of American Friends of Neve Shalom/Wahat al-Salam and also served two terms as the corporation's president.

Following graduation from the Yale Law School in 1984, Mr. Fadil clerked for the Hon. Robert R. Merhige, Jr., in the U.S. District  Court for the Eastern District of Virginia. He joined the firm in 1989 and became Counsel in 1994. His B.A. is from the University of Virginia (with highest distinction), where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. Prior to attending law school he served in VISTA (now AmeriCorps VISTA) in Little Rock, Arkansas.

 

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Fahad Qamer, Esq.

Secretary

Board Member

Fahad Qamer has been a member of AMAL since 2007 and currently serves as its Board Member and Secretary. Mr. Qamer graduated from Brooklyn Law School in 2004 where he was an Executive Member of Muslim Law Students Association and Academic Chair of Asian Law Students Assocation. He earned his B.S. degree from St. John's University in 2001 with Cum Laude in Computer Science and minor in Business Administration.

Since graduation from law school, Mr. Qamer has been working as a prosecutor in the Brooklyn District Attorney's Office where he has handled and tried cases relating to Domestic Violence, DWI robbery, burglary and assault, etc.

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