Bio

Over the past 17 years, Sam Miller has served as lead trial counsel for a wide range of clients from intentional celebrities and entrepreneurs to a billion-dollar start-up to one of the largest music streaming services in the world to publicly-traded companies in medical devices, software, and construction materials fields. As the founder of Miller Legal Partners PLLC and the former Chair of Intellectual Property Litigation for a 700-lawyer national law firm, the collective potential value and/or exposure of Mr. Miller's cases have exceeded $500 million dollars.

Mr. Miller develops creative and unique strategies and tactics for each case based the client’s objectives. He is known for defining client's objectives at the outset of a case rather than a “shoot first, think later” approach.

Among other statements about Mr. Miller's litigation skill, opposing counsel have said he is a “tenacious adversary” and provides "zealous advocacy for their clients while still maintaining professionalism." Clients have said he is "able to lay out smart strategic courses of action and then execute against them" and has an "organic eye when it comes to problem solving and treats prospective clients with great respect." Colleagues have repeatedly praised him as an "exceptional legal strategist."

Along with standard hourly arrangements in business and intellectual property cases, Mr. Miller has handled significant contingency fee cases for nearly a decade. The contingency fee cases have included patent cases; copyright cases; sexual assault cases in the context universities and well-known individuals; business disputes; and professional liability cases against lawyers, doctors, and dentists.

His most recent court-room successes have included winning a full defense verdict in a federal patent-infringement trial; obtaining a preliminary injunction on behalf of a publicly traded company against another publicly traded company in a multi-day evidentiary hearing; and defeating a summary judgment motion filed by a multi-national media conglomerate. Among other past wins, Mr. Miller has argued before the Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit and obtained a full reversal a district court's denial of a temporary restraining order in an appeal before the the Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals; obtained nationwide injunctions in favor of a premier international endurance challenge company; and obtaining favorable resolutions for several publicly-traded companies. Mr. Miller is admitted to practice before all state and federal courts in Tennessee as well as the Courts of Appeal for the Sixth, Tenth, and Federal Circuits.

Mr. Miller has received many accolades for his work including being named one of America's Top 100 High Stake Litigators (2020), an “IP Star” in Managing Intellectual Property’s IP Handbook (2013 – 2019), listed in The Best Lawyers in America^{^®} in Intellectual Property Litigation (2015 – 2020) and Patent Litigation (2018-2020), and being named a Mid-South Rising Star in Intellectual Property in 2008 and Intellectual Property Litigation in six times by Super Lawyers magazine. He served as the chair of the Intellectual Property Section of the Tennessee Bar Association from 2009 – 2010, 2011 – 2012 and 2015 – 2016; the vice chair of the Intellectual Property Section of the Tennessee Bar Association and on the governing board of the Tennessee Intellectual Property Law Association. He was an adjunct professor in intellectual property at the Cecil C. Humphreys School of Law at the University of Memphis.

In addition to his litigation practice, Mr. Miller is a Rule 31 Listed Mediator for civil cases.

EDUCATION
Indiana University Mauer School of Law, J.D., cum laude
USD Institute on International and Comparative Law at Trinity College, Dublin Ireland
Xavier University, B.A., cum laude

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