Who is Amal Clooney?
Born Amal Alamuddin on February 3, 1978, in Beirut, Lebanon, her family left the country during the Lebanese Civil War in the 1980s and lived in Gerrards Cross, Buckinghamshire.
After attending school in Buckinghamshire, Amal graduated with a BA in Oxford University's equivalent to the LLB, Jurisprudence.
In 2001, she started studying for her LLM at New York University School of Law, where she worked in the office of Sonia Sotomayor, a judge for the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.
Amal was admitted to the Bar in New York a year later and in England & Wales in 2010, making her qualified to practice law in both the US and the UK.
After working at Sullivan & Cromwell for three years for clients such as Enron and Arthur Andersen and completing her judicial clerkship at the International Court of Justice, she was later based in The Hague.
Here, she worked in the Office of the Prosecutor at the UN Special Tribunal for Lebanon and at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia.
On her return to London in 2010, she became a barrister at Doughty Street Chambers and was appointed to a number of United Nations commissions such as adviser to Special Envoy Kofi Annan on Syria.
Amal has also been involved in cases that represented Cambodia, Julian Assange and the King of Bahrain.
She also took on a few teaching roles at Columbia Law School and will teach a human rights class as a co-professor with Sarah H. Cleveland in spring 2018.
Amal Clooney net worth
Amal Clooney's net worth has accumulated to approximately $10 million (£7.4m), according to Celebrity Net Worth.
Source : DailyMail
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