Kamal Ghali

May 20, 2021 | Daily Report Online

Regulatory Uncertainty Makes Cryptocurrency Deals Vulnerable to Litigation

While the SEC has indicated that the decentralized nature of the networks on which bitcoin and ethereum operate make those currencies "assets" and not "securities," it has offered little concrete assurance when it comes to other cryptocurrencies.

By Kamal Ghali and Matthew Sellers

6 minute read

November 18, 2020 | Daily Report Online

With Facebook, Can the Federal Trade Commission Take a Merger Mulligan?

Does the FTC really have the power to undo deals that it approved five, 10 or even 30 years ago?

By Kamal Ghali

6 minute read

June 18, 2020 | Daily Report Online

Should Calling in Sick—When You're Not—Be a Felony?

The wire fraud statute, codified at Title 18, United States Code, Section 1343, makes it a crime to devise a "scheme or artifice" to defraud or to "obtain money or property" through materially false representations or promises.

By Kamal Ghali

6 minute read

February 04, 2020 | Daily Report Online

When Software Disputes Become Nuclear Litigation Events

These lawsuits—brought by private actors and governmental agencies—include hotly disputed allegations about how the software works and eye-popping claims about the damage caused by faulty software.

By Kamal Ghali and Christopher T. Giovinazzo

6 minute read

May 31, 2019 | Daily Report Online

How Corporate Data Breach Victims Can Use the Georgia RICO Statute to Recover Their Data

In Georgia, corporate victims of such flagrant and repeated criminal conduct should consider using the Georgia RICO Act's broad civil remedy provisions to help reacquire lost or stolen data.

By Kamal Ghali and John E. Floyd

5 minute read

March 18, 2019 | Daily Report Online

How Private Trade Secret Cases Collide With DOJ's War on Criminal Trade Secret Theft

The marked rise of trade secret theft prosecutions should prompt civil practitioners to consider how their civil litigation strategies may impact an ongoing criminal investigation.

By Kamal Ghali and Jeffrey Chen

7 minute read

February 20, 2019 | Daily Report Online

Atlanta Lawyer, Investigator Offer Lessons from the FBI's Disruption of North Korea's Botnet

Much like your company's IT team uses command-and-control software to fix your computer remotely, a botnet can give a single actor the power to control an army of infected computers. But the Joanap botnet comes with a unique twist.

By Kamal Ghali and Mark Ray

5 minute read

February 20, 2019 | Legaltech News

What We Can Learn from the FBI's Disruption of North Korea's Botnet

Much like your company's IT team uses command-and-control software to fix your computer remotely, a botnet can give a single actor the power to control an army of infected computers. But the Joanap botnet comes with a unique twist.

By Kamal Ghali, Bondurant, Mixson & Elmore; and Mark Ray, Nardello & Co.

5 minute read

April 18, 2011 | Daily Report Online

First-years recall 'rare experience'

If anyone needs an example of what a dramatic impact a single case can have on a young lawyer, consider the example of Neko C. Brown. When we met him, he was 29 years old. He had been in federal prison for 10 years-since he was 19 years old-and he was scheduled to spend the next 10 years there. Brown was serving a drug sentence, which had been enhanced from 10 to 20 years because he was classified as a career offender.

By Kamal Ghali and Mary W. Pyrdum

4 minute read

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