About The Founder Sam Starks
Sam Starks is a native of Columbia, South Carolina. He is veteran of the United States Army and Army Reserve. Sam clerked for the Hon. Damon J. Keith, of the United States Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals. During the early part of his legal career, Sam worked as a staff attorney for The Washington Post, and as a staff attorney with the Public Defender Service in Washington D.C.
Since relocating to Atlanta in 1999, Sam has worked as an attorney at Garland, Samuel & Loeb, where he represented individuals in civil cases involving police misconduct, prisoner rights, personal injury, and wrongful death. Sam also worked for the Atlanta office of Martin & Jones, where he represented individuals in a variety of legal cases, including insurance law, personal injury, product liability, consumer rights, premises liability, wrongful death, and government liability. Before forming Starks Law, Sam worked as a Senior Attorney with The Cochran Firm Atlanta, where his practice focused on representing individuals in state and federal court in various personal injury, wrongful death, and civil rights cases in Georgia and Ohio.
“My purpose and passion for being an attorney is to help people from all walks of life achieve equal access to justice.”
Sam is the Founder of The Barristers Society, a non-profit organization that trains and mentors lawyers and law students on representing individual plaintiffs in the areas of personal injury, civil rights, and criminal defense. Sam also serves as the Executive Director of The Criminal and Civil Justice Institute at Atlanta’s John Marshall Law School and serves on the Board of Directors of Gideon’s Promise, an organization that trains public defenders.