OVERVIEW

Tala is a Global Justice Fellow in Hausfeld's Washington, DC office, focusing on international human rights and immigration advocacy. She joined the firm after graduating from Georgetown University Law Center, where she was a member of the Georgetown Immigration Law Journal and received two CALI Excellence for the Future awards in human rights coursework.

Tala's commitment to human rights work is rooted in her upbringing in Lebanon, where she began organizing around social and legal protections for refugees and displaced communities as a teenager and later helped establish an early accountability working group following the 2020 Beirut port explosion. She went on to work to help shape policy addressing the needs of Lebanon's displaced Syrian population.

As a Student Attorney with Georgetown Law's Center for Applied Legal Studies, Tala litigated three asylum cases before federal immigration judges, including full merits hearings, prevailing in all three. Her work included client and witness interviews, evidentiary development, drafting declarations and legal briefs, and oral argument. She currently serves as a research and writing assistant to Professor Emily Chertoff on Georgetown Law's Immigrant Experience Project, conducting IRB-approved qualitative interviews with noncitizens in multiple languages to study how immigration enforcement shapes legal consciousness. She also worked as a research assistant to Professor David Super on administrative and poverty law, and studied under Georgetown Law professors. Earlier in her career, she interned with the Middle East Institute's Leadership and Policy Program and at a corporate law firm in Beirut, Lebanon.

Tala is fluent in Arabic and French.

EDUCATION

Georgetown University Law Center, J.D., May 2026

Georgetown University, School of Foreign Service, B.S., magna cum laude, International Politics — Minors in Women and Gender Studies and Economics, 2023

BAR ADMISSIONS

*Not admitted to the DC bar. Supervised by Partners of the firm.

AFFILIATIONS

American Bar Association, Member (2026 – Present)

Center for Contemporary Arab Studies, Fellow (2021 – 2023)

DAFA NGO, On-Ground Volunteer (2020– 2023)

Georgetown University Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Office, SFS Student Ambassador (2021 – 2023)

One for The World, Communication Ambassador and Board Member (2019 – 2021)

EXPERIENCE

Antitrust/Competition

Phhhoto, Inc. v. Meta Platforms, Inc. (F/K/A Facebook, Inc.) – Hausfeld represents PHHHOTO Inc., an upstart photo app that alleges Facebook engaged in an anticompetitive course of conduct to force PHHHOTO out of business.
State of Michigan v. BP p.l.c. et al. – Hausfeld represents the People of the State of Michigan in a civil antitrust action alleging that major fossil fuel companies and a leading trade association conspired to restrain trade and suppress competition from renewable energy, resulting in higher prices and reduced consumer choice.

Human Rights

Kashef v. BNP Paribas S.A. - Hausfeld represents Sudanese refugees in a landmark human rights class action against BNP Paribas, holding the bank liable for knowingly financing and profiting from genocide by laundering billions of dollars for the Omar al-Bashir regime. The team achieved class certification of more than 23,000 victims and a unanimous jury verdict for three class representative plaintiffs, resulting in a jury awarded of $20.75m. The case is now proceeding on appeal with the core findings of liability firmly established.