Samantha C. Halem practices law exclusively in the areas of employment law, education law, and related litigation. Samantha regularly counsels clients in all aspects of employment law. She advises clients on a day-to-day basis on issues such as discipline, investigations, leaves of absence, and accommodations. She drafts handbooks, policies, employment contracts, restrictive covenants, and separation agreements, among other employment documents.
Samantha represents non-profit organizations and educational institutions, as well as for-profit clients in multiple industries, including manufacturing, retail, food service, technology, bio-techs, finance, law, healthcare, and real estate. She enjoys working with companies of all sizes while learning the ins and outs of their businesses and missions in order to help them create and maintain stable, high performance workforces.
Samantha is also a successful litigator, representing clients before state and federal courts in multiple jurisdictions, including Massachusetts, New Hampshire, California, Connecticut, Florida, New York, New Jersey, and Michigan.
Samantha has also appeared before many different state human rights agencies, the National Labor Relations Board, and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission in multiple jurisdictions. She has also successfully represented clients before arbitrators and in mediations.
Samantha conducts regular seminars and training sessions across the country for clients and others. She is particularly passionate about trainings for managers at all levels, so that they can identify issues that need to be elevated to human resources and understand how to lawfully and appropriately respond to employees.
Samantha also serves as an Adjunct Professor of Employment Law at Boston University.
Prior to joining Hirsch Roberts Weinstein, Samantha ran her own boutique law firm specializing in employment law and litigation. Prior to joining the firm that would eventually become Marshall Halem, LLC in 2003, Samantha served as a law clerk for the Honorable Richard A. Paez at both the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals and the Federal District Court for the Central District of California. Samantha subsequently worked as an associate in the labor and employment departments of both the California law firm of O’Melveny & Myers, LLP and the Boston law firm of Goodwin Procter, LLP.
• Ranked by Chambers USA in Labor & Employment, Band 5, 2026
• Ranked by Super Lawyers as Top 50 Women Lawyers in Massachusetts, 2018 – 2020
• Named a Massachusetts Super Lawyer, 2014 – present
• Named one of The Best Lawyers in America® for expertise in Employment Law – Management and Litigation – Labor and Employment, 2023-present
• Boston Magazine Top Lawyers – 2024-present
• Named a Massachusetts Rising Star by Super Lawyers, 2008 – 2012
