Samantha Epstein

Samantha Epstein is Senior Counsel in Tyson & Mendes’ Jacksonville office, serving the Florida and Georgia offices. Her practice focuses on appeal-related work, including appellate motions, appellate briefs, oral argument, trial support to ensure that all appealable issues are properly preserved, and post-trial litigation.

Ms. Epstein has extensive experience in litigation and appellate work. Her creative approach to the law, strong research and writing skills, and ability to think on her feet have helped her obtain favorable results for her clients. She has won appeals on issues such as enforcement of proposals for settlement, has won motions for summary judgment on insurance coverage issues, and has successfully defended against nuclear fee awards from plaintiffs’ counsel. In one such example, she saved her client several million dollars in attorneys’ fees after trial counsel was unsuccessful in defending the underlying case. Ms. Epstein is licensed to practice law in state court in Florida and Georgia. She is also admitted to practice before the Southern District of Florida and the Middle District of Florida. She is a Florida Supreme Court Certified Circuit and County Court Mediator, and a Qualified Arbitrator.

Ms. Epstein obtained her J.D. from the University of Miami School of Law in 2009, where she served on the University of Miami Business Law Review and was Vice President of the Charles C. Papy, Jr. Moot Court Board. She graduated with honors. During law school, Ms. Epstein competed in the Broadcast Music, Inc. and Cardozo Entertainment and Communications Law Moot Court Competition, winning the entire competition, as well as the award for best brief. She obtained her LL.M. in Alternative Dispute Resolution from the Caruso School of Law at Pepperdine University in 2023, with a 4.027 GPA. She obtained her B.A. in Philosophy from New York University.

In her free time, Ms. Epstein enjoys spending time with her husband and dog. She also volunteers with Magic City K9, a prison-dog-rescue program in Miami that provides valuable rehabilitation and skill training for inmates and provides a pathway to forever homes for shelter dogs that might otherwise have been euthanized. She also volunteers her time to mentor law students, coaching moot court teams for the University of Miami.