Samantha L. Squillante

Overview

Samantha Squillante’s extensive involvement in diverse legal practices and jurisdictions provides her with a superior acumen in her current employment and wage and hour fields. Drawing on experience across multiple legal disciplines, Samantha provides practical, business-focused counsel that helps employers navigate complex legal challenges, minimize risk, and achieve their operational objectives.

Samantha works closely with businesses ranging from small employers to multi-franchise organizations, partnering with business owners, executives, and human resources professionals to develop customized employment policies, compliance protocols, and workplace practices tailored to each client's unique needs. She also co-authored a California workplace discrimination, harassment, and bullying prevention training program that satisfies the state's mandatory training requirements and regularly conducts in-person management and employee training for employers.

Samantha has participated in countless cases throughout all stages of the litigation process. She has an art for drafting tailor-made discovery requests to elicit crucial information for resolution, preparing compelling motions including summary adjudication, and positioning matters for efficient resolution through negotiation, mediation, or trial preparation. Clients value her responsiveness, sound judgment, attention to detail, and ability to deliver practical legal solutions that align with their business objectives.

Before becoming an attorney, Samantha worked as a legal assistant and paralegal in several areas of law, gaining broad litigation experience while working alongside accomplished attorneys. That diverse foundation continues to inform her thoughtful, solution-oriented approach and her commitment to delivering exceptional service to the firm's clients.

Presentations & Speeches

• Speaker, Common Sense at Work: The Law of the Workplace in a "Me Too" World, 2019