Samuel M. Hill

Sam Hill's practice focuses primarily on consumer and commercial class action litigation, complex and mass tort litigation, products liability litigation, and general civil litigation in both State and Federal Courts, including appeals.  He has also served as a mediator in private civil actions.  Sam was counsel before the United States Supreme Court in the landmark BMW v. Gore case and has served on planning and steering committees for national mass tort and class action litigation matters.

Sam received his undergraduate degree from the University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill, where he was a Johnston Scholar and was selected to join Phi Beta Kappa.  He received his Juris Doctor degree from The University of Michigan Law School, where he served as an Associate Editor and Note Editor of the Michigan Law Review, and received the Bodman-Longley Award recognizing his scholastic record.  Before he began practicing law, Sam served as a judicial clerk for Judge Samuel J. Ervin, III, for the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit. 

In addition to his successful law practice, Sam stays closely involved with the community.  He serves as Tribal Judge for the MOWA Band of Choctaw Indians in Mobile, Alabama, an adjunct professor of American Indian Law at the Cumberland School of Law at Samford University, and he has served as President of the Native American Bar Association.  Additionally, he has served as the Vice-Chair of the Minority Counsel Program, a constituent program of the American Bar Association Commission on Racial and Ethnic Diversity in the Profession.