Taher Helmy is the Founder and Senior Partner of the Egyptian Law Firm Helmy, Hamza & Partners and Senior Partner of the International Law Firm of Baker & McKenzie. He is a member of Illinois and Chicago Bar Associations, is admitted before the Federal Court of the U.S. and was the first Arab lawyer to be admitted before the US Supreme Court in 1979. He is admitted before Egypt's Supreme Court and was admitted to practice in Saudi Arabia in 1979 and is the only lawyer admitted in the United States, Egypt and Saudi Arabia.