We are very happy to welcome Samir Halawi and Nour Hamidi on the AALASC Board!
Samir Halawi
Samir Halawi is a Tax & Executive Compensation Associate with Munger, Tolles & Olson LLP practicing out of its Los Angeles office. Samir’s practice involves a wide range of transactional and advisory work in the corporate tax, partnership tax, tax-exemption and executive compensation areas. Samir was born in Beirut, Lebanon and was raised in Beirut, Accra, Ghana and Freetown, Sierra Leone. He first set foot in the United States when he was 16 years old. A Los Angelino since immigrating, Samir worked his way through college; attending Santa Monica College before transferring to California State University Northridge to conclude his undergraduate studies. After gaining some professional work experience (including a stint selling after-market aircraft parts to foreign militaries), Samir found himself in law school. He attended Georgetown University Law Center obtaining a dual J.D./Tax LL.M. and graduating with a number of university honors.
Nour Hamidi
Nour is a first-generation Palestinian American Muslim attorney who was born and raised in Orange County, California. She is a litigation associate at Ellis George Cipollone O’Brien where she practices white collar criminal and regulatory defense and a wide variety of civil litigation, in both federal and state court. Prior to joining Ellis George Cipollone, Nour clerked for the Honorable Sheri Pym of the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California. She also served as a judicial extern for Judge André Birotte Jr. in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California and Judge Kim McLane Wardlaw in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.
Nour received her J.D. from Loyola Law School, Los Angeles where she served as the Research Editor for the Loyola of Los Angeles International Law Review and as the community liaison for the ACLU at Loyola. In law school, Nour founded the first Muslim law student association, and worked with the Juvenile Innocence and Fair Sentencing Clinic where she represented individuals who were wrongly convicted in their youth or sentenced to unjustly disproportionate sentences. Nour is a recipient of the AALASC ChangeLawyers Scholarship. As a board member, she is committed to advancing AALASC’s mission to create more diverse and equitable representation in the legal field.