Sam F. Hanna is a partner in the New York office of Lewis Brisbois and a member of the General Liability and Healthcare practice groups, where he focuses on the defense of health care agencies, businesses and non-profit organizations in general liability, premises liability, and negligent hiring/supervision matters.

Prior to Lewis Brisbois, Mr. Hanna practiced civil defense for a regional law firm, where he specialized in defending matters involving toxic tort, railroad and automobile transportation, products liability, premises liability, and New York construction and labor law. 

Prior to entering private practice, Mr. Hanna was an Assistant Prosecutor with the Essex County Prosecutor's Office in Newark, New Jersey, where he prosecuted and successfully tried first and second degree crimes to guilty verdicts, including homicide, aggravated assault, and unlawful weapons possession cases. As a Judicial Law Clerk in the Middlesex Vicinage of the Superior Court of New Jersey, Mr. Hanna also successfully mediated cases involving landlord-tenant and small claims disputes, as well as drafted bench memoranda on pre- and post-trial motions involving matters in the Civil and Criminal Divisions.

Publications

Legal Experience

Foreign Language Capabilities

Admissions

• State Bar Admissions
  • New Jersey
  • New York
• United States District Courts
  • United States District Court for the District of New Jersey
  • United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York
  • United States District Court for the Southern District of New York

Education

Rutgers University School of Law, Newark

Juris Doctor, 2014 

Montclair State University

Bachelor of Arts, 2011