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Samantha M. Everett
obtained her Juris Doctor from the
University of San Diego School of Law in
2004, cum laude, Order of the
Coif, where she graduated in the top 5%
of her class and was an editor of the San
Diego Law Review. She received her
undergraduate degree from San Diego State
University, graduating cum laude with
distinction in English Literature.
Samantha began her
legal career in 2004 at Cooley LLP (formerly
Cooley Godward Kronish LLP), where she was a
member of the litigation group. Samantha
left Cooley in 2010 to practice employment
litigation with the employment boutiques
Stokes Roberts and Wagner ALC and Wilson
Turner Kosmo, LLP.
Samantha is experienced
in all aspects of complex civil litigation
in a variety of substantive areas, including
employment, intellectual property,
securities, general commercial litigation,
and white-collar criminal defense. She has
done extensive motion work including
dispositive and evidentiary motions and has
had a substantial level of experience in
both large and small cases including taking
and defending depositions, court appearances
and oral argument, conducting employee
interviews, other evidence gathering and
preparation, preparing witnesses for
deposition and trial, managing e-discovery,
managing large-scale litigation, and serving
as local counsel in San Diego and the
Southern District of California.
Samantha joined Montage Legal
Group in January 2011 and is currently doing
freelance work for law firms in San Diego.
Samantha also serves on the Leadership
Development Committees of both the
Association of Business Trial Lawyers - San
Diego and the Lawyers Club of San Diego. Her
monthly Lawyers Club News article
"Leadership Opportunities" seeks to assist
women lawyers to obtain leadership positions
on local government and nonprofit boards and
commissions. Samantha is admitted to
practice in California and all federal
districts in the state and is a member of
the American Bar Association and the Federal
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