Miriam Archibong

• Representing a private university in a lawsuit alleging a breach of contract and obtained dismissal with prejudice in federal court.
• Responding to hundreds of individual BDR claims on behalf of a for-profit university.
• Defending a global insurer in a potential bad faith action for failure to settle, and assisting in competing demands for the limits in a multi-vehicle accident.
• Serving as defense counsel for a health care company and pharmacy benefit manager facing multiple class actions targeting insulin sales.
• Defeated an injunction to bar a candidate from running for public office.

Miriam Archibong is a commercial litigation associate who defends clients inside and outside of the courtroom. Miriam previously served as a federal law clerk to the Hon. Raymond A. Jackson of the Eastern District of Virginia and interned with the Hon. Anne Barnes of the Georgia Court of Appeals.

While in law school, Miriam served as the founding editor-in-chief of the Journal of Law & Public Affairs and held multiple prestigious internships, including working with the White House Office of Public Engagement and the White House Council on Environmental Quality.

Before law school, Miriam spent two years as a teacher with Teach For America in Atlanta, and one year as a Fulbright research fellow in Singapore. Miriam also successfully lobbied the Atlanta Board of Education for the first vegetarian lunch line at a public secondary school in the United States.

Miriam actively serves her community, having worked alongside the Hon. Kimberly Anderson in the State Court of DeKalb County to develop policy recommendations for eradicating human trafficking in Georgia. Miriam also served on the Atlanta Board of Education’s Equity Task Force, which drafted the Atlanta Public Schools first equity policy. In 2022, Miriam was inducted into Outstanding Atlanta, which is Atlanta’s premier honor for exceptional leadership and community involvement, and received Atlanta’s Rising in Community Excellence Rising Star Award.

Bar Admissions

• District of Columbia
• Georgia

Education

• University of Pennsylvania (J.D., 2016)
• Harvard University (Ed.M., 2010)
• Spelman College (B.A., 2009)

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