Samuel R. Miller

Of Counsel
Email: smiller@outtengolden.com
Office: New York

SAMUEL R. MILLER is Of Counsel to Outten & Golden LLP. For over two decades, he has represented plaintiffs in individual and class action civil rights cases.

Prior to joining O&G in July 2009, Sam was the Legal Director at the Center for Constitutional Rights, where he directed a twenty-person legal staff in domestic impact litigation (including a recent victory against the New York City Fire Department based on class-wide race discrimination), international human rights litigation (including a recent multi-million dollar settlement against Shell Oil for human rights abuses and environmental degradation in Nigeria), and the Guantànamo Global Justice Initiative. Prior to CCR, he was a Research Scholar at Columbia Law School, where he initiated and directed the Institutional Reform Project. Sam also has been a permanent law clerk to Hon. Thelton E. Henderson in San Francisco, where he assisted in certifying the largest employment class action in U.S. history (Dukes v. Wal-Mart) and in placing the California prison system into federal receivership (Plata v. Schwarzenegger). Earlier in his career, Sam was an associate at Dickson & Ross in Oakland, California, where he represented a group of female Chevron employees in what was then the largest sexual harassment settlement in the country.

Sam received his B.A. magna cum laude from Tufts University in 1984 and his J.D. from Boalt Hall School of Law at the University of California, Berkeley in 1988. He is admitted to practice in California and New York, and in the United States Supreme Court, Ninth Circuit, Second Circuit, Northern, Eastern, and Central Districts of California, and the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York.