Sam cares, because he’s one of us.

Sam is a proud graduate of De Anza College, a community college located in Cupertino, California, where he earned two Associate degrees. He then transferred to UCLA, where he earned his Bachelor’s degree in Political Science. There, Sam fought on the UCLA Taekwondo team and wrote for the UCLA Undergraduate Law Journal.

After graduation, he worked for Muslim Advocates, a civil rights advocacy non-profit located in San Francisco, California. While at Muslim Advocates, Sam participated in Muslim Advocates’ groundbreaking lawsuit against the NYPD, Hassan v. City of New York 804 F.3d 277 (3d Cir. 2015), which alleged racial profiling and unconstitutional surveillance of Muslim houses of worship. The case also established new case law in the United States Court of Appeals, Third Circuit.

Sam then attended Santa Clara University School of Law on partial scholarship. He worked multiple jobs while earning his law degree and studying for the bar exam - driving Uber, Lyft, Doordash, and working as a security guard, including as a bouncer at two different bars.

Sam’s first solo lawsuit came in his first year of law school when he sued a security guard company for wage theft. Successful, he helped two other employees sue the same company for the same wage theft. After, he participated in the Worker’s Rights Clinic at the George and Katherine Alexander Community Law Center while also working as a research assistant for the Northern California Innocence Project. Sam went on to clerk at the Council on American-Islamic Relations (“CAIR”), a grassroots civil rights advocacy group. After Sam graduated, he clerked for a plaintiff-side employment law practice in Millbrae, California.

In his spare time, Sam teaches self-defense for a local non-profit and is a dedicated San Francisco 49ers fan.