Sam is a veteran of the United States Army and a graduate
of the University of South Carolina, where he graduated
Phi Beta Kappa. After graduating from Duke University
School of Law in 1992, Sam was appointed as a law clerk
to the Honorable Judge Damon Keith of the United States
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit.
Following his clerkship for Judge Keith, Sam accepted
a staff attorney position with the legal department
at The Washington Post newspaper, where he handled various
corporate and litigation matters for The Washington
Post. In 1994, Sam accepted a staff attorney position
with the Public Defender Service for the District of
Columbia, a position that involved handling criminal
trials and appeals on behalf of poor people accused
of crimes in Washington, D.C.
As a public defender, Sam was invited to attend Gerry
Spence's Trial Lawyers College in 1997, which exposed
him to civil trial lawyers who were involved in representing
people against insurance companies and corporations.
He has been a member of the Trial Lawyers College faculty
since 1998 and has taught at numerous seminars throughout
the country.
In 1999, Sam relocated from Washington, D.C. to Atlanta,
where he began a practice that focused almost exclusively
on personal
injury cases in the areas of medical
malpractice, products
liability, nursing
home negligence, civil rights, as well as wrongful
death claims. Since being in Atlanta, Sam has tried
personal injury cases in both state and federal court
and has argued cases before the court of appeals at
the state and federal levels in Georgia.
Sam joined Martin & Jones in 2002 and now focuses
his practice entirely on representing injured people
in personal injury cases.
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