Alamdar Shabbir Hamdani is a Partner in the Houston law firm of Borunda, Hamdani & Simon, LLP, practicing in the areas of commercial litigation, tort litigation, and civil right litigation. Over the past few years, Mr. Hamdani has dedicated a significant portion of his free time to civil rights issues facing Muslims, South Asians, and Arabs in a post 9-11 environment and in that regard has defended scores of individuals in voluntary FBI interviews, debated Department of Justice officials, and published several opinion pieces in The Dallas Morning News and The Houston Chronicle. He is also a contributor to the American Bar Association's Supreme Court Preview. Much of Mr. Hamdani’s community work has come as the President-Elect of the North American South Asian Bar Association, and as the first South Asian or Muslim board member of the American Civil Liberties Union of Texas. This work has culminated in several awards including recognition by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission as one of Houston’s top 40 people to make an impact on civil rights, and by the Texas Law Foundation as a top civil rights attorney. Mr. Hamdani received his BA from The University of Texas at Austin, and JD from the University of Houston, where he served as an editor on the University of Houston Law Review.