George Farah
George Farah joined the Firm as an Associate in 2005 and is a member of the Antitrust, Unsafe Drugs & Environmental Health Threats, and Human Rights practice groups.
Mr. Farah is currently working on City of Milwaukee v. NL, Inc., in which he and other attorneys represent the City of Milwaukee in a public nuisance lawsuit against the leading lead paint manufacturer. He is also currently working on Schwartz Lee, et al. v. Deutsche Bank AG and Desdner Bank AG, in which he and other attorneys represent survivors of Nazi-era forced and slave labor against German companies for failing to provide sufficient compensation for allegedly using and profiting from slave labor.
Prior to joining the Firm, Mr. Farah worked on several issue-oriented campaigns. He is the founder of Open Debates, a nonprofit, nonpartisan Washington-based organization committed to reforming the presidential debate process. Before attending law school, Farah worked to expose the harms of media concentration and the IMF’s structural adjustment programs at Ralph Nader’s Center for the Study of Responsive Law.
Mr. Farah is the author of the book No Debate: How the Republican and Democratic Parties Secretly Control the Presidential Debates from Seven Stories Press (April, 2004). His articles have been published in The Boston Globe, The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Denver Post, The Christian Science Monitor, Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel, Extra! Magazine, and other publications.
Mr. Farah has appeared on dozens of television programs, including “Nightline,” “NOW with Bill Moyers,” “20/20,” “CBS Evening News with Dan Rather,” “NBC Nightly News with Tom Brokaw,” “CNN Lou Dobbs Tonight,” and “Countdown with Keith Olbermann.” Mr. Farah has been interviewed on over 100 radio shows, including NPR’s “To the Point,” “Keep Hope Alive With Jesse Jackson,” “Democracy Now!,” “CounterSpin,” and “Judicial Watch Report.”
Farah has given several talks on the political process at colleges and universities, hosted numerous televised press conferences and was a Newsmaker at the National Press Club in 2004.
Mr. Farah is a graduate of Harvard Law School (J.D., 2005), and Princeton University (B.A., Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, 2000). Mr. Farah was the recipient of a Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowship, and a delegate to the 2005 International Achievement Summit.
Mr. Farah is admitted to practice in New York.
Contact: gfarah@cmht.com
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