Reema Abdelhamid is an associate in Morrison & Foerster’s Litigation Department. She has represented Fortune 500 companies and financial institutions in significant civil, criminal and regulatory matters. She has been a member of multiple criminal and civil trial teams and has been the lead associate on several complex commercial litigation matters, including the representation of DISH Network in a billion-dollar contract action brought by an affiliate of Cablevision. She has argued before the New York State Appellate Division and represented clients before the SEC and FINRA. She has also recently completed a secondment to the litigation team of Standard Chartered Bank in London.
Prior to joining Morrison & Foerster, Ms. Abdelhamid was an associate in the Litigation Department of Davis Polk & Wardwell. She clerked for the Honorable Jed Rakoff of the Southern District of New York. Ms. Abdelhamid graduated from Columbia Law School in 2002, where she was a Kent Scholar and a member of the Columbia Law Review. During law school, Ms. Abdelhamid interned for the New York County District Attorney’s Office. She graduated magna cum laude from Princeton University in 1999.
Ms. Abdelhamid is a representative of New York City Bar Association at the NYSBA House of Delegates. She previously served as the chair of the Women in the Courts Task Force of the New York City Bar Association and as a member of the Pro Bono and Legal Services Committee of the New York City Bar Association.