Hanni Fakhoury is a Staff Attorney with the Electronic Frontier Foundation, focusing on the intersection of technology and criminal law within the Coders Rights Project. Prior to joining EFF, Hanni worked as a federal public defender in San Diego, where he tried fourteen felony jury and bench trials and argued before the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals four times, winning three reversals. He also served as a copy editor for the 2010 edition of Defending a Federal Criminal Case. Hanni received two bachelor degrees from UC Berkeley, and graduated from Pacific McGeorge School of Law, where he was elected to the Order of Barristers for his excellence in written and oral advocacy and worked at the federal public defender's office in Sacramento. Hanni is a member of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers.