Samuel R. Simon, Litigation Department Chair
ssimon@jacobslawpc.com

Samuel R. Simon serves as Litigation Department Chair at Jacobs Law Group.  He specializes in complex commercial and corporate litigation.

From 2002 through 2005, Mr. Simon was affiliated with the New York law firm of Abraham, Fruchter & Twersky, where he concentrated his practice in the areas of complex securities class actions and shareholder derivative litigation in courts throughout the United States.   From 1983 to 2001 he practiced law with the Philadelphia-based firm of Barrack, Rodos & Bacine, where he specialized in securities class actions, derivative litigation, and antitrust litigation on a national basis, including substantial defense representation of national brokerage firms in class and individual actions.  Previously, he practiced for six years with Blank Rome, LLP in Philadelphia, working in that firm’s Complex Litigation Department under the direct supervision of the legendary Edwin P. Rome.  His government experience includes clerkships in the New Jersey state and federal trial courts, and a three-year stint as an appellate attorney in the Antitrust Division of the Department of Justice in Washington, D.C., where he participated in numerous matters before the Supreme Court and presented argument in every federal court of appeals on a wide variety of antitrust and administrative law matters.

Mr. Simon is a graduate of The Johns Hopkins University and the University of Maryland School of Law.  He is admitted to practice in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and New York.  He serves as an adjunct professor of law at Rutgers-Camden Law School, where his courses in Antitrust Law, Complex Civil Litigation, and Securities Litigation & Enforcement regularly receive the highest student evaluations.  He is a featured Op Ed contributor to the leading Spanish newspaper Diari de Girona, where his Sunday column enjoys wide readership throughout Catalonia. 

Mr. Simon is married to the pianist Elena Galynina, a former Moscow Conservatory professor who maintains her piano studio in the Philadelphia suburbs. 

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