Samantha M. Davis

Phone: (212) 871-6958
Fax: (212) 818-1264
Email: sdavis@gss-law.com
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Samantha M. Davis is an associate at Greenfield Stein & Senior, LLP, specializing in complex Trust & Estate litigation matters. Her practice areas include will and trust contests, discovery proceedings, fiduciary litigation, accounting proceedings, and estate administration. Ms. Davis is a Part 36 fiduciary and serves as a court-appointed guardian ad litem representing incapacitated individuals, minors, and unknown heirs in Surrogate’s Court, and serves as a court evaluator and counsel to alleged incapacitated persons in Article 81 guardianship proceedings in Supreme Court.

Prior to joining Greenfield Stein & Senior, Ms. Davis was a senior paralegal at a boutique Long Island elder law firm specializing in estate administration and estate planning which included drafting Wills, Revocable Trusts, Irrevocable Trusts, Special Needs Trusts, health care proxies, powers of attorney, and living wills. Ms. Davis then became a law clerk in the Elder Law department in the Long Island office of Abrams Fensterman, LLP, where she specialized in contested and uncontested Article 81 guardianship proceedings and Medicaid planning. While in law school, Ms. Davis interned for the Hon. Theresa Whelan of the Suffolk County Surrogate’s Court and externed for the Hon. James M. Wicks of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York.

Ms. Davis received her J.D. from Touro University Jacob D. Fuchsberg Law Center where she served as Issue Editor of the Touro Law Review Journal, President of the Elder Law, Trusts & Estates Association, President of Animal Legal Defense Fund, Student Chapter, and served on the executive boards of the Tax Law Society and the Environmental Law Society. Ms. Davis was a member of the Volunteer Income Tax Assistance Program (VITA) where she dedicated her time each tax season to prepare and file tax returns for qualifying individuals. Prior to law school, Ms. Davis earned her Applied Science degree in Paralegal Studies from Suffolk County Community College in 2015, and her B.A. in Political Science from Stony Brook University in 2018.

Ms. Davis is a member of the Trusts & Estate Section of the New York State Bar Association, serves on the New York Women’s Bar Association Animal Law Committee, and was appointed by the New York State Bar Association to serve as a Member of the Committee on Legal Education and Admission to the Bar for the 2026 – 2027 academic year.

Articles and Publications

Conservation Zoning: An Overview of New York State’s Land and Wildlife Preservation Policies, Zoning and Planning Law Report, Vol. 47, No. 6 (June 2024)

Practitioners Beware: Lady Bird Deeds May Affect Medicaid Eligibility, The Suffolk Lawyer, Vol. 40, No. 1 (February 2024)

The Punishment of Cruel and Unusual Conditions: Extending the Purely Objective Standard Adopted in Kingsley v. Hendrickson to Claims of Deliberate Indifference, 39 Touro L. Rev. 1353 (2024)