Leah Samuel focuses her practice on complex civil and criminal litigation. Before joining Keker, Van Nest & Peters, Leah clerked for Judge Lewis J. Liman of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. Prior to clerking, she was an associate at an Am Law 20 law firm in New York City, where she worked on high-stakes multinational government and internal investigations. During law school, she interned with the U.S. Department of Justice Antitrust Division, the New York and California Offices of Attorney General, and externed with the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Connecticut. Leah earned her law degree from Yale Law School, where she participated in the Veterans Legal Services Clinic and the Civil Rights Project, and served as a research assistant to Professors Fiona Scott Morton and Daniel Markovits.
Before becoming a lawyer, Leah was a senior policy specialist at the Crime and Justice Institute, where she managed comprehensive criminal justice reform initiatives across multiple states. She earned her bachelor’s degree with highest distinction in economics and development studies from the University of California, Berkeley. Leah is fluent in Spanish.
Leah is admitted to practice in New York. She is not admitted to practice law in California, and her practice is supervised by partners of the firm admitted in California.