Samantha F. Spector

Partner

Samantha F. Spector is a partner at Silver & Freedman and a member of the firm's Employment & Labor Law Department and Family Law Practice Group. Samantha has experience practicing in both the federal and state courts, and has represented clients in all stages of the litigation process: pre-litigation settlements and negotiations, mediation, arbitration, trial and appeals.

Samantha's areas of expertise include dissolutions, legal separations, paternity, modification of orders, child custody related issues, marital settlement agreements, prenuptial and postnuptial agreements. Samantha's approach to her practice is focused on reaching resolution for her clients in an interest-based and cost-efficient manner. She has completed interdisciplinary training courses with the Los Angeles Collaborative Family Law Association and encourages clients to resolve their divorce challenges, when and if possible, in the Collaborative Law Practice or Collaborative Divorce Process, or through mediation.

Samantha's practice also includes providing advice and consultation to employers about employment law, conducting workplace investigations, and reviewing and drafting employment policies, agreements, handbooks and other personnel forms. She routinely defends employers in sexual harassment, wrongful termination, discrimination, wage and hour, trade secrets, non-solicitation, unfair business practices, breach of contract and other employment matters in the courts, mediations, arbitrations as well as in administrative hearings before the Workers Compensation Appeals Board, the Department of Fair Employment and Housing and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.

Samantha has lectured on employment and labor law topics to various groups located throughout Southern California. In 2009, 2010 and 2011, she was named to the list of "Rising Stars" by Los Angeles Magazine in the area of Family Law. Samantha currently is a member of the Phi Beta Kappa Honor Society, Golden Key National Honor Society, and the Family Law Section of the California State Bar and the Los Angeles Bar Associations.

Samantha often volunteers her time to local community organizations. She has served as a judge for Pepperdine University School of Law's Annual National Entertainment Law Moot Court Competition and is a founding member of The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC) Young Leadership Division for Los Angeles. In 2008, Samantha dedicated her time as an instructor for the 2008 "Family Law Walk-Through Program" to assist new family law practitioners, paralegals and legal secretaries navigate and familiarize themselves with the family law departments, services and courtrooms at the Stanley Mosk Courthouse located in downtown Los Angeles. Samantha also was an Editor of Silver & Freedman's quarterly newsletter, The Briefcase, for four consecutive years (2005-2009).

Samantha earned her J.D. from Loyola University School of Law in 1999. She received her B.A., magna cum laude, in political science, from the University of California, Los Angeles in 1996.