Mohamad Batal

Biography

Mohamad Batal is an Associate in Berger Montague’s Antitrust practice department, based in the Firm’s Washington, D.C. office. Before joining the Firm, Mr. Batal worked at the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”), first in litigation at the Bureau of Consumer Protection and then in the Office of Commissioner Rebecca Kelly Slaughter. In the latter role, he co-authored an award-winning law review article on algorithmic harms, surveillance capitalism, and economic justice.

Mr. Batal graduated from Yale Law School, where he served as Academic Chair of the Middle Eastern & North African Law Students’ Association and provided research assistance to Professors William Eskridge, Jr., Fiona M. Scott Morton, and Amelia Fletcher. His research examined the EU’s Digital Markets Act as well as how AI is transforming discovery and legal practice. He also participated in legal clinics focused on tech accountability, where he contributed to an amicus brief in United States v. Google (D.D.C.) and a comment supporting the FTC’s rulemaking on deceptive drip pricing. During law school, Mr. Batal also worked in the Privacy Unit of the California Attorney General’s Office and at Luminos.Law, a law firm focused on AI.

Mr. Batal received his B.A. from Claremont McKenna College, where he graduated magna cum laude and with departmental honors. He double-majored in Government and Philosophy, Politics, and Economics (PPE), and won the Government Department’s award for best undergraduate thesis in 2018.

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