Sam Starks

Adjunct Professor & CCJI Executive Director

sstarks@johnmarshall.edu

Education

B.A., University of South Carolina, cum laude

J.D., Duke University School of Law

Courses Taught

Civil Rights Lawyering

Career Highlights

Starks is an experienced litigation attorney with over 30 years of civil and criminal trial and appellate court experience in local, state and federal courts in the District of Columbia, Georgia and Ohio. Sam is the founder of The Starks Law Firm. He is also a former Senior Attorney with the Cochran Firm Atlanta, a former partner with the law firm of Martin & Jones, and former associate at Garland, Samuel & Loeb. Sam graduated from Duke University School of Law in 1992, where he was a Note Editor on the Duke Law Journal. After graduating from law school, Sam Clerked for Judge Damon J. Keith on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit. Following his clerkship, Sam began his legal career as a practicing attorney as a staff attorney at The Washington Post. While in Washington D.C., Sam also worked several years as a staff attorney at the Public Defender Service for the District of Columbia and relocated to Atlanta in 1999.