A member of the California State Bar since 2005, Fadi Amer is the founder of Law22, a law association created to provide quality legal services to small business owners and individuals at below market rates. He is its lead trial attorney, handling matters relating to immigration, personal injury, bankruptcy, and business litigation. Before Law22, Fadi Amer worked as an adjudications officer at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and before that, as an associate with McDermott Will & Emery.
Fadi Amer immigrated to the United States with his family when he was just 11. After graduating high school as class valedictorian, he entered the University of California, Los Angeles to study political science. There, Fadi Amer was a member of Phi Beta Kappa and received the Distinguished Bruin Award and the Itzhak Rabin Pursuer of Peace Award. He graduated Summa Cum Laude in 2002.
Fadi Amer then attended Harvard Law School and earned his JD. While at Harvard, he was a member of the Harvard International Law Journal and International Law Society. In his first year, Mr. Amer interned for the Honorable Samuel L. Bufford of the United States’ Central District Court in California. In his second year of law school, he joined the Hale & Dorr Legal Clinic, where he helped families fight unsanitary housing conditions and evictions.