Anjana Samant

Associate
Email: as@outtengolden.com

ANJANA SAMANT is an associate at Outten & Golden LLP. She represents employees, individually and in class actions, in all areas of employment law, including executive contracts and compensation disputes, discrimination and harassment matters, and wage-and-hour claims. Ms. Samant is also co-chair of the firm’s Discrimination and Retaliation Practice Group.

Recently, after more than a year of proceedings, Ms. Samant, Laurence Moy, and Wayne Outten, with support from other O&G attorneys and staff, tried a vigorously contested arbitration case against financial services giant Deutsche Bank, winning over $18 million in damages, interest, and expenses on behalf of two individuals. This American Arbitration Association award represents one of the largest arbitration awards in an employment case.

Ms. Samant devotes part of her work toward public interest matters and pro bono work. Her recent efforts include obtaining unpaid minimum and overtime wages for a former domestic worker, as well as representing a transgender individual who was fired as a result of her employer’s discriminatory animus.

In the past, Ms. Samant has worked with various organizations engaged in public advocacy and legal representation, including the Center for Constitutional Rights, the Asian Pacific American Legal Center, and National Advocates for Pregnant Women. She also has collaborated with Desis Rising Up & Moving (DRUM), an organization serving South Asian communities in New York City, in their documentation and advocacy project on behalf of post-9/11 immigrant detainees.

Ms. Samant speaks frequently on employment law and discrimination matters, and has co-authored papers on related issues, such as whistleblower and retaliation law, executive contracts, LGBT individuals’ workplace protections, and damages in employment litigation.

After law school, Ms. Samant co-taught Constitutional Law as the Derrick Bell Fellow at New York University School of Law. From 2002-2004, Ms. Samant served as a clerk to United States District Judge Martha Vázquez, Chief District Judge in the District of New Mexico.

Ms. Samant is a member of the American Bar Association Section for Labor & Employment Law (Equal Employment Opportunity Committee), the New York State Bar Association, Association of the Bar of the City of New York, the Lesbian and Gay Law Association of Greater New York, and the National Employment Lawyers Association and its New York affiliate.

Ms. Samant received her B.A. from Cornell University and her J.D. from New York University School of Law. She is admitted to the New York State Bar.