Samantha Diorio

Litigation requires persistence, organization, and strategy. I understand the importance of always seeing the “bigger picture” of a particular matter and knowing how each individual component fits together like a puzzle. I enjoy taking the different parts of a case and using them to craft a unique strategy to help achieve our client’s goals. 

Ms. Diorio focuses her practice in commercial litigation, representing individuals, businesses, shareholders, and other interested parties in complex state and federal court matters. She has experience counseling clients through all phases of the litigation process.

Ms. Diorio’s work encompasses various disputes including those related to the enforcement of contracts, aviation matters, insurance agreements, consumer fraud claims, product liability actions, workplace discrimination, premises liability, construction accidents involving New York Labor Law claims, and toxic tort matters.

Ms. Diorio routinely appears in both state and federal court matters pending in both New York and New Jersey. She also drafts and argues motions for summary judgment and other dispositive motions, and has extensive experience in drafting pleadings, settlement agreements, discovery requests and responses, taking and defending depositions, and assisting with the development of overall case strategy. She has also represented clients in alternative dispute resolution forums, including mediation proceedings.

Prior to joining Connell Foley LLP in 2017, she was an associate at Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott, LLC and clerked for the Honorable Thomas J. LaConte of the New Jersey Superior Court.

Ms. Diorio has been selected to the New York Metro Super Lawyers as a Rising Star since 2020. She was also selected to be a Fellow of the New Jersey State Bar Association’s 2022-2023 Leadership Academy. In 2024, she graduated from the Federation of Defense & Corporate Counsel’s (FDCC) National Ladder Down program, which is a year-long program dedicated to leadership empowerment, business development, and mentoring of women lawyers across the United States.

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New York Metro Super Lawyers, Rising Stars (2020-2023)

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