Areas of Practice
Samuel Samaro heads the firm’s employment practice.  He has extensive experience litigating labor and employment matters of all types, including discrimination claims, disability claims, compensation disputes and contract actions.  He has tried numerous cases to verdict in state and federal courts as well as administrative agencies.  He also regularly consults employers and employees on the full-range of employment law problems and issues, such as policy drafting and interpretation, work-place harassment and bullying, litigation avoidance and planning.  He has been designated a Certified Civil Trial Attorney by the New Jersey Supreme Court.

Professional/Civic Activities
• Past Member, District II-B Ethics Committee
• Master, Sidney Reitman Labor and Employment Law Inn of Court
• Board of Trustees, Westmont Montessori School

Publications
• "The Case for Fiduciary Duty as a Restraint on Employer Opportunism
Under Sales Commission Agreements," Chapter 15, Compensation, Work
Hours and Benefits, Proceedings of the New York University 57th Annual
Conference on Labor, Kluwer Int'l., 2009
• "Fiduciary Duty," New York University Labor and Employment Law
Newsletter, Issue 3, Spring 2009
• "The Case for Fiduciary Duty as a Restraint on Employer Opportunism
Under Sales Commission Agreements," 8 University of Pennsylvania
Journal of Labor and Employment Law 441, 2006
• "Pregnancy Leave Ruling Misses the Mark," 182 N.J.L.J. 164, 2005
• "Is 40 the New 50? Do the Discrimination Math," Interview for article,
JOBSINTHEMONEY.COM, January 20, 2005
• "Is Your Boss a Bully?" Interview for article, JOBSINTHEMONEY.COM,
September 27, 2005
• "Medical Leave Under the Discrimination Laws," 171 N.J.L.J. 1113, 2003
• "The Jungle/Focus on Recruitment, Pay and Getting Ahead," Interview for
article, The Wall Street Journal, January 28, 2003
• "Plans in Place to Guard Reservists’ Jobs," Interview for article, The
Bergen Record, February 18, 2003
• "Employment Provisions for Citizen-Soldiers," Interview for article,
WORKWISE, By Mildred L. Culp, April 8, 2003
• "Suing for Retaliation - Does it Pay?" Interview for article, WORKWISE,
By Mildred L. Culp, November 16, 2003
• "Uncertainty About Going to War with Iraq Increases Employer Military
Leave Concerns," Interview for article, BNA Human Resources Report,
November 4, 2002
• "Defense Verdict in Federal Court Discrimination Case," Article describing
Samaro verdict in New Jersey Employment Law Reporter, December, 2001

Bar/Court Admissions
• New Jersey, 1988
• Pennsylvania, 1988
• United States District Court, District of New Jersey, 1988
• United States District Court, Southern District of New York, 2001
• United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit, 2005
• United States Court of Appeals, Third Circuit, 2004

Education
• LL.M (Labor and Employment Law), New York University School of Law,
2005 (Recipient: Seymour Goldstein Award for Distinction in Labor and
Employment Law Program)
• J.D., Rutgers University School of Law, 1988
• B.A., Rutgers College, 1984 (with highest honors)