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As of Counsel
Nicholas Koumjian is a lawyer specializing in international criminal law. For 20 years he was a Deputy District Attorney for Los Angeles County. From 2000-2003 he worked in the office of the Prosecutor for the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY), where he tried the case of the Prosecutor vs. Milomir Stakic, the mayor of the town of Prijedor in Bosnia, charged with war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide. From 2003-2005, he headed the UN staffed and funded Serious Crimes Unit in East Timor with jurisdiction over war crimes and crimes against humanity committed during the territories independence referendum in 1999. Mr. Koumjian worked from 2005-2006 for the War Crimes Chamber of the State Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina. From 2006-2007 he headed a human rights program in Colombia funded by USAID. From 2007 until May of this year, Mr. Koumjian was Principal Trial Attorney for the office of the prosecutor of the Special Court for Sierra Leone in the trial of Charles Taylor, former President of Liberia. Mr. Koumjian also serves as the Reserve International Co-Prosecutor for the Cambodia tribunal, the ECCC, following his nomination by the United Nations Secretary General. Mr. Koumjian has recently gone into private practice and associated with Geragos and Geragos. He intends to specialize in cases concerning international law and human rights.
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