Donald F. Samuel
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Top Rated Family Law Attorney with 43 years of experience
Criminal Law, Personal Injury
3151 Maple Drive N.E., Atlanta, GA 30305
About Donald F. Samuel
Practice Areas
- Criminal Law
- Personal Injury
Education
- University of Georgia School of Law, Athens, Georgia, 1980Honors: cum laude
- Law Journal: Georgia Journal of International and Comparative Law, Editor
- Oberlin College, 1975
Representative Cases
- US v. Sullivan ,(United States District Court )
- State v. Dorsey
Classes and Seminars
- Speaker, Eleventh Circuit Judicial Conference, 1999
- Speaker, Continuing Legal Education Seminars in Georgia
- Speaker, American Bar Association Annual Meeting
- Speaker, National Conference of Federal Public Defenders
- Adjunct Professor, Georgia State University, School of Law
- Federal Defenders of the Middle District of Alabama (December 2008): "Overview of United States Supreme Court Term, 2008-2009"
- Eleventh Circuit Appellate Practice Institute (October 2008): "Rehearings and Rehearings En Banc in the Eleventh Circuit"
- Advanced Criminal Law Seminar, State Bar Of Florida (2009, 2010, 2011, 2013, 2015): "Recent Developments in the Eleventh Circuit and the United States Supreme Court"
- Featured Speaker at the Utah Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers at the September, 2009
- Conference of Arizona Public Defenders, Keynote Speaker, August, 2012
- Mississippi Public Defenders (October 2012)
- National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, New Orleans conference on Defending Sexual Assault Cases (2012)
- Northern District of Georgia Federal Public Defenders and CJA counsel annual St. Crispin's Day seminar (2010 - 2014)
Qualifications
Bar Admissions
- Georgia, 1980
- U.S. District Court Northern District of Georgia, 1980
- U.S. Court of Appeals 11th Circuit, 1982
- U.S. Supreme Court, 1992
- U.S. Tax Court, 1994
- Supreme Court of Georgia, 1980
Other Affiliations
- Georgia Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (GACDL) (Past-President)
- National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (NACDL) (Member)
- American Board of Criminal Lawyers, 1999 - Present (Member)
- American College of Trial Lawyers, 2000 - Present
Past Positions
- United States Court Judge Harold L. Murphy (N.D. Ga.), Law Clerk
Articles
Published Works
- Georgia Criminal Law Case Finder, Lexis Law Publishing
- Eleventh Circuit Criminal Handbook, Lexis Law Publishing
- Federal Criminal Law Digest, James Publishing Company, 1999
- Georgia RICO, Georgia Bar Journal, Winter, 1984
- The Money Laundering Control Act of 1986: Will Attorneys Be Taken to the Cleaners?, Georgia Bar Journal, Spring, 1988
- The 1994 Georgia Criminal Procedure Discovery Bill, Georgia Bar Journal, January, 1995
- Abolishing the Forfeiture Laws, Georgia Bar Journal, Spring, 1995
Office Info
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- Personal Injury
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