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HAKIMI BIN ABDUL JABAR
Hailing from Batu Pahat municipality but
with maternal ancestry in Kuala Lumpur,
Hakimi bin Abdul Jabar graduated from
High School Batu Pahat. A firm believer of
always being prepared, he excelled as a boy
scout, athletics, soccer and other sports.
Growing up, he harboured great ambitions
to become an international lawyer, hunting
for war criminals like Klaus Barbie. He
obtained his Bachelor of Laws degree from
the University of Wolverhampton on 23rd.
July 1998 and later the Certificate of Legal
Practice (CLP) and commenced pupilage at
Messrs Nordin Torji & Yussof Ahmad and
was called to the Malaysian Bar on
24.1.2002. He was employed by Messrs
Shatar, Tan & Chee as a Legal Associate in
their Litigation department for the period
2002 and later he joined Employees
Provident Fund Board Malaysia (EPF) as a
legal officer in the Prosecution and
Litigation Division in 2003 handling civil
litigation, criminal prosecution and
adversarial matters and undergone intensive
training in prosecutorial and litigation
finesse at the EPF Social Security Training
Institute, otherwise known ESSET.
Upon the insistence of his childhood and
school friend and CLP classmate in 1998-
1999, the late Mr. Foong Wing Kuan, he
left EPF and joined Messrs Foong Wing
Kuan & Associates as Litigation Partner in
May 2003. Upon the sudden demise of
Foong Wing Kuan in September 2003, he
maintained the firm as Messrs. A.J. Hakimi & Associates from December 18, 2003
whereby he was also a pro bono legal aid
lawyer servicing the Legal Aid Centre in
Wisma Kraftangan and volunteer legal
advisor for the MCA Public Services and
Complaints Department under Datuk Seri
Michael Chong in Wisma MCA from 2003
to 2005.
His practice spans a wide variety of laws
and subject matters, making him versatile
and adept in complex litigation whilst
having vast experience and familiarity
within the High Court and Subordinate
Courts.
In addition to legal practice, Mr Hakimi
also has vast knowledge in the finance
industry whereby he was a manager of a
Citigroup Sales and Outsourcing Services
in 2007 and managed the Batu Pahat
branch’s retail sales and marketing division.
In his leisure time, Mr Hakimi is a prolific
writer and author of published international
law books on genocide, torture, violence,
terrorism and human rights and
international disaster relief laws. He is also
an artiste, singer, composer who has
published and released musical albums.
Aside from that, he is also a Harvard
University certified Humanitarian
Responder to Conflict and Disaster before
joining T.Kumar, Maxx Hii and Taufik.