Samy Abdallah is a Senior Associate Attorney at Berenzweig Leonard. At the firm, Samy works on a range of matters such as business litigation and employment law. He joined the firm in September 2022 after completing a clerkship at the Fairfax County Circuit Court where he clerked for Chief Judge Penney S. Azcarate.

Samy graduated from William & Mary Law School in 2021. During law school, Samy served as the Editor-in-Chief of the William & Mary Journal of Race, Gender, and Social Justice. His Note discussing excessive use of force by police forces in Israel against the Ethiopian minority was selected for publication. Prior to law school, Samy graduated from Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas with a Major in History, and a Minor in African American Studies.

RECOGNITION AND CERTIFICATIONS

• Listed in Virginia Super Lawyers, Rising Stars, 2025
• Up & Coming Lawyers Honoree, Virginia Lawyers Weekly, 2024

PUBLICATIONS AND PRESENTATIONS

• Speaker, “Navigating HR Laws: Your Must-Have DMV Cheat Sheet,” DC SHRM Employment Law Summit, 2024
• Samy Abdallah, Black Lives Matter Abroad, Too: Proposed Solutions to the Racialized Policing of Ethiopian Jews in Israel, 27 Wm. & Mary J. Women & L. 515 (2021).

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS

• Fairfax Bar Association, Young Lawyers Section Board of Directors