Samy Khalil

Practice Areas

Samy represents individuals and businesses in investigations by DOJ, SEC, IRS, EPA, CFTC, FERC, and the Texas Attorney General in areas such as the FCPA, tax, environmental regulation, commodities trading, antitrust, bankruptcy and mortgage fraud, health care fraud, and immigration. He also consults on civil matters with criminal implications or exposure (such as False Claims Act cases alleging violations of the anti-kickback statute or Medicare fraud, or investigations concerning alleged sanctions violations by companies operating in prohibited countries). Samy has unparalleled experience in obtaining “compassionate release” for federal inmates under the First Step Act. His representations cover a wide range of matters and include clients in the energy industry, health care, financial services, and construction and engineering sectors.

Career

After law school, Samy worked at the Fair Trial Initiative, where he focused on death penalty litigation in North Carolina. He then returned to his hometown of Houston and worked for seven years as an Assistant Federal Public Defender in the Southern District of Texas. In 2010 Samy went into private practice, joining the firm of GERGER & CLARKE and later the prestigious international law firm of QUINN EMANUEL URQUHART & SULLIVAN LLP. Before launching his own office, Samy worked as a partner at HUGHES ARRELL KINCHEN LLP and GERGER KHALIL HENNESSY & MCFARLANE LLP.

Professional Memberships

Federal Bar Association

National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers

Harris County Criminal Lawyers Association

Publications

Samy has given presentations on white-collar crime, particular federal offenses, and various aspects of federal sentencing.

In May 2021, he moderated a panel on “Federal Discovery” with two federal magistrate judges.

He served on the Federal Bench Bar Committee, which organizes the bi-annual bench-bar conference in the Southern District of Texas (2019).

He presented on the US Dept. of Justice’s “Yates Memo” at the National Association for Criminal Defense Lawyers’ “White-Collar Conference” (2016).

He published “Doing the Impossible: Appellate Reweighing of Harm and Mitigation in Capital Cases After Williams v. Taylor, With a Special Focus on Texas,” Texas Law Review (2001).

Education

Awards