Sam Pumphrey
BIOGRAPHY
Sam Pumphrey is a tax attorney specializing in helping clients strategically plan and structure transactions to achieve optimal tax outcomes. He offers guidance on federal, state, and local taxation matters, with experience in partnership and LLC operating agreements, financial instrument taxation, property transfers, and mergers and acquisitions.
Before joining Kelly Hart, Mr. Pumphrey served as a judicial law clerk to the Honorable Amos Mazzant, III of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas. He earned his J.D., summa cum laude, from Baylor Law School in 2023, where he also served as a member of the Baylor Law Review. He graduated summa cum laude with a B.S. in Public Accounting and American Politics from Washington and Lee University in 2020.
EXPERIENCE and HIGHLIGHTS
- Judicial Law Clerk for The Honorable Amos Mazzant, III, United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas, 2023-2024
AFFILIATIONS and HONOR
- Tarrant County Bar Association
- Tarrant County Young Lawyers Association
EDUCATION
- Baylor Law School, J.D., summa cum laude, 2023
- Dean’s Academic Excellence Full-Tuition Scholarship
- Baylor Law Review, Senior Notes and Comments Editor
- Washington and Lee University, B.S., summa cum laude, in Public Accounting and American Politics
ADMISSIONS
- State Bar of Texas, 2024
- Federal District Court of the Eastern District of Texas, 2024
SPEECHES and PUBLICATIONS
- Author, The Untested Shield: Piercing the Veil of Nonprofit Corporations, 74 Baylor Law Rev. 717 (2022)
