Samantha Simmons Fredieu

Samantha Simmons Fredieu

Fairfax, Virginia
Phone: (703) 763-0966
Fax: (703) 352-4282
Email: Email Me

Attorney Samantha Simmons Fredieu is an associate at Hale Carlson Baumgartner, PLC. Ms. Fredieu graduated magna cum laude from Vermont Law School where she was the symposium editor on the Vermont Law Review, a production editor on the Vermont Journal of Environmental Law, and a member of the Moot Court Advisory Board. She has clerked for both the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the civil division of the U.S. Attorney’s Office E.D.V.A. in Alexandria. After law school Ms. Fredieu completed a two year clerkship with Chief Judge Dennis J. Smith of the Fairfax County Circuit Court. She has special interest in trust and estate litigation and environmental law.

Areas of Practice:

• Trust and Estate Litigation
• Business Litigation
• Family/Domestic Law
• Administrative Law

Litigation Percentage:

• 100% of Practice Devoted to Litigation

Bar Admissions:

• Virginia, 2008

Education:

• Vermont Law School, South Royalton, Vermont, 2008
  J.D.
  Honors: Magna Cum Laude
  Honors: Top 11% of Class
  Honors: Member, Moot Court Advisory Board
  Law Review: Vermont Law Review, Symposium Editor, 2006 - 2008
  Law Journal: Vermont Journal of Environmental Law, Production Editor, 2006 - 2008
• Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, 2004
  B.A.
  Honors: Lambda Pi Eta
  Honors: Communication Honors Society
  Major: Communication

Representative Cases:

• Kirchner v. McAninley, 2011 Va. Cir. LEXIS 27 (Va. Cir. Ct. Mar. 14, 2011)

Past Employment Positions:

• Fairfax Circuit Court, Law Clerk to Chief Judge D.Smith, 2008 - 2010
• U.S. Attorneys Office EDVA Civil Division, Law Clerk
• U.S. EPA, Office of Enforcement & Compliance Assurance, Legal Intern
  

Pro Bono Activities:

• Big Brothers Big Sisters of America, 2008 - 2009