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Sammy Ford IV

Sammy Ford IV

Location:
Houston, Texas
Phone:
800-870-9584
713-222-7211
Fax:
713-225-0827
E-mail:

Sammy primarily devotes his practice to representing plaintiffs who have been injured due to the negligence of others. In addition to handing catastrophic plaintiff's personal injury cases, Sammy practices in the areas of employment, securities, and general commercial litigation.

Sammy is a native Houstonian and attended St. Thomas High School. He graduated magna cum laude from Harvard College in 2004. While at Harvard, Sammy served as Historian of the Harvard Political Union, the college's debating society, and as Secretary of Harvard CHANCE, a group dedicated to mentoring and tutoring students from Cambridge Rindge and Latin School. While participating in the leadership of CHANCE, Sammy also helped two recently-immigrated students prepare for their English as a Second Language exam. After graduating from college, Sammy returned to Texas for law school, finishing with Honors from the University of Texas School of Law in 2007. During his time there, he served as Development Editor of The Review of Litigation and Chair of the Career Services Committee of the Thurgood Marshall Legal Society. He considers participating in the school's inaugural Supreme Court Clinic, in which the clinic's members were able to convince the Supreme Court to review their client's case during a term in which the Court agreed to hear only 78 of the 8,517 cases filed, one of his highest accomplishments.

Following graduation, Sammy returned to Houston to clerk for the Honorable Jerry E. Smith of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. During his time with Fifth Circuit, Sammy worked on cases ranging from insurance law to administrative law to one of the most watched white-collar criminal cases of the 21st century. He then worked for two years at a prestigious litigation firm in Houston handling oil and gas and high-stakes securities cases.

Sammy is active in the legal community as a member of the local and state bar associations and the local, state, and national trial lawyer associations. In addition he was recently selected to serve as a member of the State Bar's Computer and Technology Section Council, the Houston Lawyer magazine's editorial board, and the Houston Bar Association's Law Week Committee.

When he's not working on law related matters, Sammy stays active with book collecting, trying new and interesting restaurants, and CrossFit.

Houston Personal Injury Attorney

Catastrophic Injuries
Wrongful Death
Product Defects
Business Litigation
18 Wheeler & Commercial Truck Accidents
Aviation Accidents
Admiralty & Maritime Accidents
Birth Injuries
Brain Damage
Burns
Construction Accidents
DWI Accidents
Electrocutions
Environmental Law
Explosions
Medical Malpractice
Motorcycle Accidents
Nursing Home Negligence
Offshore Injuries
Paraplegia
Patent Infringement
Petrochemical Accidents
Pharmaceutical Litigation
Quadriplegia
Spinal Cord Injuries
Swimming Pool Accidents
Workplace Accidents
Vehicular Accidents

Hablamos Espanol

Areas of Practice

  • Business & Commercial Law
  • Securities Law

Bar Admissions

  • Texas, 2008
  • U.S. District Court Northern District of Texas
  • U.S. District Court Southern District of Texas
  • U.S. District Court Eastern District of Texas
  • U.S. District Court Western District of Texas
  • U.S. Court of Appeals 5th Circuit
  • U.S. Court of Appeals 10th Circuit

Education

  • The University of Texas School of Law, Austin, Texas
    • J.D., With Honors - 2007
    • Honors: Supreme Court Clinic 2006-2007. Assisted in drafting an ultimately successful petition for certiorari to the United States Supreme Court
    • Honors: Thurgood Marshall Legal Society, Chair: Career Services Committee, 2005-2006
    • Law Review: Review of Litigation (Volume 26), Development Editor, 2006 - 2007
    • Law Review: Review of Litigation (Volume 25), Staff Member, 2005 - 2006
  • Harvard College
    • A.B. (Magna Cum Laude) - June, 2004
    • Honors: Thesis: "Being-in-the-World: Nietzsche, Education, Politics"
    • Honors: Uche Award: Awarded to seniors who improve quality of life in Currier House
    • Major: Government

Professional Associations and Memberships

  • Houston Trial Lawyer Association, Board of Directors, 2011 - 2012
  • Houston Trial Lawyers Association, Member
  • Texas Trial Lawyers Association, Member
  • Houston Bar Association, Member
  • Houston Chowhounds, Member
  • State Bar of Texas, Computer & Technology Section Council Member
  • Houston Bar Association , Houston Lawyer Editorial Board Member
  • Houston Bar Association, Law Week Committee Member
  • Houston Bar Association, Bench-Bar Pro Bono Committee, Member
  • St. Thomas High School, Alumni Board Member

Past Employment Positions

  • Susman Godfrey, LLP, Houston, Texas, Associate, 2008 - 2010
  • Honorable Jerry E. Smith, Circuit Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, Law Clerk, 2007 - 2008
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