Serving clients primarily in the Metropolitan Atlanta area, Hakim’s practice focuses on assisting landowners, business owners, developers, builders and others seeking specific entitlements to the use of property, including, but not limited to, land use and zoning matters, alcohol licensing and permitting and business licensing.

In addition, Hakim provides strategic government affairs advice to clients in the areas of procurement; public private partnerships, privatization and specialized issues related to the identification and application of specific economic development incentives for land developers. On the administrative side, Hakim assists clients seeking to do business with government in securing vendor registrations and, where applicable, minority and/or female business enterprise designations, local small business designations and, at the state level, disadvantaged business designations. In each of his client engagements, Hakim operates in that space where government, law and public policy intersect.

Hakim has enjoyed twenty-two years of experience in government affairs in the Metropolitan Atlanta area. He began his career as an assistant city attorney with the City of Atlanta, providing counsel to the Mayor, City Council and various city departments, including the Bureau of Planning Development and Neighborhood Conservation. He also staffed the Zoning Review Board, Board of Zoning Adjustment and the Urban Design Commission on issues related to land use, zoning and historic preservation. He later became a partner with the international law firm McKenna Long & Aldridge, LLP.