Morad Fakhimi is a seasoned attorney with nearly two decades of public-sector experience with civil litigation, federal criminal defense, and appellate practice. During the first decade of his practice, Morad was employed by a number of federal public defender offices where his experience ranged from representing Alabama’s death-row inmates in their post-conviction appeals to defending the gamut of federal criminal cases. In the course of this practice, Morad investigated and litigated a vast array of federal statutory, regulatory, and constitutional issues across the span of hundreds of federal criminal cases, numerous federal jury trials as lead counsel, and over 150 federal appeals. His work as an assistant federal public defender spanned five districts in Georgia, Alabama, and Connecticut, and involved a diverse group of clients ranging from impoverished and disadvantaged individuals to investment brokers and advisers, bank officers, real estate developers, physicians, foreign government officials, and U.S. government officials. 

During the next decade of his practice, Morad spent eight years as the career law clerk for a federal judge in the Northern District of California. That position entailed performing all of the research and writing necessary for the preparation and composition of the court’s orders and opinions in a broad array of civil litigation settings including dispositive motions seeking either dismissal or summary judgment, administrative appeals from federal agencies, discovery disputes, matters relating to extraordinary relief, and post-judgment litigation. The areas of law involved spanned the entire range that one might encounter in a busy federal court including federal constitutional issues, intellectual property (patent, trademark, and copyright infringement cases), antitrust, product liability, civil rights cases, employment and labor disputes, class actions, prison litigation, suits involving the United States, suits against municipalities, suits involving Native American tribes, suits involving foreign parties, and suits involving state law issues where the parties were from different states or countries.

More recently, having served as board president for a local homeowners’ association for the last several years, during which Morad’s zeal for legal research led him to become increasingly familiar with community association law, as his familiarity with this area of increased, so too did his interest. Eventually, Morad decided to open a new chapter in his career by employing his public sector litigation experience on behalf of homeowners’ associations by joining Epsten APC. In this new role, he looks forward to bringing his litigation experience to bear on behalf of community associations, whether it be in the context of active litigation matters, or in the realm of advice and consultation regarding potential future litigation or litigation avoidance.