Samantha focuses her practice on litigation, with an emphasis on trade secrets. She is committed to helping businesses protect their proprietary information and maintain a competitive advantage by carefully handling complex trade secret issues. Her experience includes conducting legal research and drafting a variety of memoranda, briefs and discovery.
Before joining Benesch, Samantha served as a judicial intern for the Honorable Chief Judge Sara Darrow in the United States District Court for the Central District of Illinois. In law school, she was the Executive Editor of Research and Marketing for the Loyola Law Journal and a student attorney with Loyola’s Health Justice Project. This medical-legal partnership addresses systemic barriers impacting vulnerable communities.
summa cum laude
Following a recent trend to reduce large damages awards in trade secret misappropriation cases, a federal judge in Massachusetts cut …
After receiving a jury verdict awarding $452 million in damages against a rival company for misappropriation of trade secrets, the …