Sam has a broad commercial and public law practice. Prior to coming to the Bar, he was Associate to the Hon Justice PA Keane AC of the High Court of Australia. He also practised as a solicitor in the dispute resolution team at Herbert Smith Freehills, where he worked on a range of commercial and public law proceedings in the High Court of Australia, Federal Court of Australia and Supreme Courts of NSW and Victoria. He was previously Associate to the Hon Justice JS Gleeson when her Honour was a Justice of the Federal Court of Australia. Sam graduated from the University of Sydney with a Bachelor of Arts and a Bachelor of Laws, ranked second overall in his law cohort of 164 and in receipt of the prize for first in his final year cohort and prizes for and/or first ranks in seven subjects, including Advanced Constitutional Law and Equity. He later read for the postgraduate Bachelor of Civil Law at the University of Oxford, supported by Christ Church’s Myers Scholarship. He graduated with distinction and the paper prize for Commercial Remedies.  Sam maintains an academic interest in law, having tutored Constitutional Law and Introduction to Property & Commercial Law, and examined Public Law, at the University of Sydney.