Thomas G. "Tom" Sampson

Thomas G. "Tom" Sampson


Thomas Kennedy Sampson & Tompkins LLP

Recognized since 1993

Atlanta, Georgia

Practice Areas

Personal Injury Litigation - Defendants

Personal Injury Litigation - Plaintiffs

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Mr. Sampson is the Managing Partner of Thomas, Kennedy, Sampson, & Tompkins LLP, Georgia’s oldest minority-owned law firm. Sampson graduated from Morehouse College and earned a Juris Doctor degree from the UNC at Chapel Hill. Throughout his distinguished career, Sampson has often been tapped to serve government, the Bar and the community. Former Governor Roy Barnes appointed him Vice Chairman on the State Judicial Nominating Commission. He has served as President of the Gate City Bar Association, President of the Atlanta Legal Aid Society, Chairman of the State Bar of Georgia’s Client Security Fund, Vice President of the Atlanta Council of Younger Lawyers and Vice Chairman of the State Bar of Georgia Disciplinary Board. He has represented the City of Atlanta and the State of Georgia in major litigation, and has prosecuted catastrophic injury cases resulting in several record setting, seven figure verdicts in State and Federal Court. Because of his successful career, he is the first African American to have been inducted into the Georgia Chapter of the American Board of Trial Advocates and he has been listed in every published edition of The Best Lawyers in America since 1993. Locally, Atlanta Magazine has consistently included Sampson in its list of the “Best Lawyers in Atlanta,” and he has been a Georgia “Super Lawyer” in every year of its existence, an honor reserved for the top 5 percent of the lawyers in the State. In 2006, Mr. Sampson was honored by his Alma Mater, Morehouse College by being named the recipient of the 2006 Bennie Trailblazer Award. Mr. Sampson was also honored in 2007 by being selected as a Charter Fellow, Litigation Counsel of America, a trial lawyer honorary society composed of less than one-half percent of American lawyers.

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Location
  • 3355 Main Street
    Atlanta, GA 30337
Languages
  • English
Education
  • The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, J.D., graduated 1971
  • The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, graduated 1971
  • Morehouse College, graduated 1968
Bar Admissions
  • North Carolina, North Carolina Bar Association
  • Georgia, State Bar of Georgia
Affiliations
  • THE AMERICAN TRIAL LAWYERS ASSOC. - MEMBER
  • AMERICAN BOARD OF TRIAL ADVOCATES - ADVOCATE
  • Litigation COUNSEL OF AMERICA - CHARTER FELLOW

Recognized in The Best Lawyers in America® 2025 for work in:
  • Personal Injury Litigation - Defendants
  • Personal Injury Litigation - Plaintiffs
Awards:
  • TRAIL BLAZER AWARD- MOREHOUSE COLLEGE
  • MILLION DOLLAR ADVOCATES FORUM
  • MEN WHO SOAR- WOMEN LOOKING AHEAD
  • HALL OF FAME- GATE CITY BAR
  • GEORGIA'S TOP 100 TRIAL LAWYERS AMERICAN TRIAL LAWYERS ASSOC.
  • GEORGIA SUPER LAWYER
  • BEST LAWYERS IN ATLANTA- ATLANTA MAGAZINE
Additional Areas of Practice:
  • Personal Injury Litigation

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