Samir Doshi

Since joining Susman Godfrey after clerking for Chief Justice Roberts on the United States Supreme Court, Samir has represented clients in the most significant cases in the country.

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Samir’s representations include:

Serving as counsel to the certified class of Plaintiffs in Bartz v. Anthropic, where he and the Susman Godfrey team secured a $1.5 billion settlement, which, if approved, will be the largest reported copyright settlement in history. Read more in The New York Times, Bloomberg, and Reuters.

Serving as counsel to Everly Health in an arbitration for breach of contract and violations of the Lanham Act. After a two-week trial, the arbitrator awarded Everly $987 million. Everly then successfully moved to confirm the arbitration award in the United States District Court for the District of Delaware, notwithstanding an opposing motion to vacate. The Court confirmed the award in a judgment valued at over $1.03 billion. Read more in Reuters, the Chicago Tribune, and Law360 (subscription required).

Representing Dutch telecommunications company Koninklijke KPN N.V. (KPN) in a breach of contract dispute against Samsung Electronics Co. After a week-long trial, the jury awarded KPN $341 million in damages.  When Samsung attempted to remove the case to federal court post-trial, Samir led KPN’s remand briefing in E.D. Tex., filing an opposition brief in just days and then arguing two of the three main issues to the court. Samir prevailed and the case was summarily remanded. The jury verdict for KPN has been covered in Texas Lawyer, Bloomberg Law, and World IP Review. Read more.

Representing a certified class of plaintiffs in In re: National Football League’s Sunday Ticket Antitrust Litigation, Susman Godfrey served as trial counsel in an antitrust action against the National Football League and its 32 teams. After a three-week trial, the jury awarded plaintiffs more than $4.7 billion in damages before trebling. The trial court vacated the verdict on a post-trial motion, while leaving untouched the jury’s determination that the NFL violated the Sherman Act. The case is on appeal to the Ninth Circuit. Read more in Fortune, ESPN, Reuters, and CNN.

Samir’s clients have also included multiple leading pharmaceutical companies, multiple Fortune 500 companies, and a leading academic research institution—covering intellectual property, patent, financial, and complex commercial issues.

BACKGROUND

Samir joined Susman Godfrey after clerking at all three levels of the federal judiciary, most recently for Chief Justice of the United States, John G. Roberts, Jr., and previously for Judge Raymond J. Lohier, Jr. of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, and Judge Randolph D. Moss of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia.  Samir also served as a Bristow Fellow in the Office of the Solicitor General at the United States Department of Justice, where he assisted in the briefing and preparation of argument for matters on behalf of the federal government in the U.S. Supreme Court. 

Samir is a graduate of the Yale Law School, where he received the Thurman Arnold Prize, Potter Stewart Prize, William E. Miller Prize, and John Fletcher Caskey Prize. Samir was also selected as a Coker Fellow in Contracts, served as Notes and Comments editor on the Yale Law Journal, and served as co-President of the Trial Advocacy Team.  Samir received his B.A., magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, with distinction in all subjects from Cornell University, where he was elected commencement speaker for the Government Department and received an “All American” award from the American Mock Trial Association. 

Samir has published in the Harvard Law School Forum for Corporate Governance, and, prior to law school, worked as management consultant at McKinsey & Company.  

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