Kabir Hashmi is an Associate in the firm’s Litigation Department, where his practice focuses on complex commercial disputes, advertising litigation, law-firm defense, and government and regulatory investigations. Mr. Hashmi counsels a wide variety of clients – including Fortune 500 companies, officers and directors, private individuals, as well as not-for-profit organizations – facing high stakes disputes. Mr. Hashmi has experience at all stages of litigation, from pre-litigation investigation and risk assessment, through trial and appeal. 

Mr. Hashmi qualified as a Barrister at Law in the United Kingdom as a Member of the Honorable Society of Lincoln’s Inn. He previously clerked for Chief Justice Qazi Faez Isa of the Supreme Court of Pakistan.

Mr. Hashmi collaborates with colleagues across practices and maintains an active pro bono practice. 

Bar Admissions

• United States District Court, Southern District of New York
• United States District Court, Eastern District of New York
• New York
• High Courts of Pakistan

Education

• Columbia Law School (LL.M., 2022)
  • James Kent Scholar
  • Columbia Law School Senate, Senator
• Lincoln's Inn (Bar of England and Wales, 2017)
• BPP University (LL.B., Second Class Honors (Upper Division), 2015)
  • Editor, Human Rights Journal

MEMBERSHIPS: Member, Columbia Law School Association Board of Directors (2026-present); Secretary, New York City Bar Association's Middle Eastern and North African Committee (2024-present)

SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS: Moderator, "The Independence of the Judiciary and Rule of Law in Pakistan," New York City Bar Association (July 23, 2024)

• "Nobody’s People: Genocide of Myanmar’s Strangers," BPP Human Rights Journal 2016, 2016 BPP HRJ 1