Sammy High
Senior Litigation Attorney
Sammy High joined MWZM in 2024 as a Senior Litigation Attorney in the firm’s Houston office. Sammy was born and raised in Lonoke, Arkansas. He graduated from the University of Central Arkansas (B.S. Public Administration) in 1998. He obtained his J.D. from the University of Arkansas at Little Rock/William H. Bowen School of Law in 2001. He was admitted to the Arkansas bar that same year and is licensed in both federal and state courts. He was admitted to the Tennessee Bar in 2008 and is also licensed in the 6th Circuit.
Sammy has over twenty-three years of litigation experience in a number of areas, including over eighteen years of experience in mortgage-banking/lending litigation, representing clients in a wide array of general and complex litigation in the industry in multiple courts and jurisdictions. He has years of experience of trying cases and in handling and resolving cases via motion practice and mediation and at the trial court and appellate levels.
Sammy has served as a frequent CLE speaker/presenter, including presentations on topics related to general litigation, real estate transactions and the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act. Sammy has served on multiple bar subcommittees and has served as a presiding judge and scoring judge for Arkansas Moot Court competitions. He is a 2014 graduate of the Arkansas Bar Association Leadership Academy. Sammy is a former Commissioner Chairman of Pulaski County Fire District No. 2, and he was elected to, and served as, City Attorney for the City of Cammack Village, from 2015 to 2021. Sammy was listed among Arkansas Money and Politics Magazine’s “Legal Elite” in 2024.
Opinions and Published cases include the following: Harold Ives Trucking Co. v. Pickens, 355 Ark 407; 139 S.W.3d 471 (2003); Anderson v. Citimortgage, Inc., 2014 Ark. App. 683 (2014); and Marshall v. Deutsche Bank National Trust Co. (In re Marshall) 595 B.R. 269 (B.A.P. 8th Cir. 2019).
