Sam grew up in Springfield, Illinois, and recently completed a federal clerkship in the Northern District of Illinois. He previously practiced in Washington, D.C., where he focused on regulatory issues, congressional oversight, and government-related investigations and litigation. Sam graduated magna cum laude from New York University School of Law and cum laude from Yale University. In law school, Sam served as a legal intern in the Obama administration’s White House Counsel’s Office and as a student advocate working in the areas of voting, immigration, and LGBTQ rights. He also contributed significant research assistance for a new edition of a torts textbook edited by two N.Y.U. Law professors and used nationwide.
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- Associate, Goldman Ismail Tomaselli Brennan & Baum LLP
- Associate, Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP
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- New York University School of Law (J.D., magna cum laude)
- Order of the Coif
- Articles Editor, New York University Law Review
- Arthur Garfield Hays Civil Liberties Fellow
- Yale University (B.A., cum laude)
- Distinction in Political Science
- New York University School of Law (J.D., magna cum laude)
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- Honorable Marvin E. Aspen, United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois
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- State of Illinois
- U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois
- U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan