Donald F. Samuel

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• Best Lawyers in America, 1993-Present
• Rees Smith Lifetime Achievement Award, Georgia Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, 2014
• Georgia Journal of International and Comparative Law, Editor, University of Georgia School of Law
• Lawyer of the Year, Best Lawyers in America

• Oberlin College, 1975

• The 1994 Georgia Criminal Procedure Discovery Bill, Georgia Bar Journal, January, 1995
• Abolishing the Forfeiture Laws, Georgia Bar Journal, Spring, 1995  
• Speaker, Eleventh Circuit Judicial Conference, 1999
• Speaker, Continuing Legal Education Seminars in Georgia
• Speaker, American Bar Association Annual Meeting
• Speaker, National Conference of Federal Public Defenders
• Adjunct Professor, Georgia State University, School of Law
• Federal Defenders of the Middle District of Alabama (December 2008): "Overview of United States Supreme Court Term, 2008-2009"
• Eleventh Circuit Appellate Practice Institute (October 2008): "Rehearings and Rehearings En Banc in the Eleventh Circuit"
• Advanced Criminal Law Seminar, State Bar Of Florida (2009, 2010, 2011, 2013, 2015): "Recent Developments in the Eleventh Circuit and the United States Supreme Court"
• Featured Speaker at the Utah Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers at the September, 2009
• Conference of Arizona Public Defenders, Keynote Speaker, August, 2012
• Mississippi Public Defenders (October 2012)
• National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, New Orleans conference on Defending Sexual Assault Cases (2012)
• Northern District of Georgia Federal Public Defenders and CJA counsel annual St. Crispin's Day seminar (2010 - 2014)  
• Geogria Criminal Law Case Finder, Lexis Law Publishing
• Eleventh Circuit Criminal Handbook, Lexis Law Publishing
• Federal Criminal Law Digest, James Publishing Company, 1999
• Georgia RICO, Georgia Bar Journal, Winter, 1984
• The Money Laundering Control Act of 1986: Will Attorneys Be Taken to the Cleaners?, Georgia Bar Journal, Spring, 1988

• US v. Sullivan (United States District Court)
• State v. Dorsey 

• Georgia Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (GACDL), Past-President
• American College of Trial Lawyers, 2000 - Present  
• U.S. Court of Appeals 11th Circuit, 1982
• Supreme Court of Georgia, 1980  
• American Board of Criminal Lawyers, Member, 1999 - Present
• U.S. District Court Northern District of Georgia, 1980
• U.S. Tax Court, 1994
• National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (NACDL), Member
• Georgia, 1980
• U.S. Supreme Court, 1992

“among the best of the best.”

“Don is simply the most knowledgeable lawyer in criminal law in Georgia. He is also personable and self-effacing. The combination of the two make him an incredibly successful advocate on behalf of defendants in criminal cases. Don is the first lawyer I would call if I were charged with a serious crime.”