About Sam Dhawan

Sam Dhawan is an attorney at Price Benowitz LLP focused on personal injury matters, with significant trial experience across a variety of cases.

Dhawan earned his Juris Doctor from the University of Baltimore School of Law and is admitted to the Maryland State Bar. After law school he served as Judicial Law Clerk to the Honorable Judith C. Ensor of the Circuit Court for Baltimore County, Maryland.

Dhawan is fluent in Hindi, Urdu, and Punjabi, and is conversational in Spanish.

Proven verdicts and settlements at Price Benowitz Accident Injury Lawyers, LLP

These results are credited to Price Benowitz Accident Injury Lawyers, LLP. A result appears under an attorney's own name only when a published source names them as counsel on the case.

$25 million sought

Price Benowitz, with co-counsel Ben Crump, filed a $25 million wrongful death suit for the father of Rolin Hill, who died in 2024 after Virginia Beach jail deputies restrained and beat him during a mental health crisis.

Virginia Beach, Virginia · 2026Wrongful DeathRead the full story →

A large tree fell onto a moving car on Beach Drive in Rock Creek Park and trapped the driver, Marcelino Cruz Leiva. He sued the United States under the Federal Tort Claims Act, alleging the National Park Service should have found and removed the decayed tree. After a four-day bench trial in December 2023, Judge Amit Mehta entered judgment for Cruz Leiva on his negligence claim in the sum of $5 million on May 7, 2024.

U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, Washington · 2024Premises LiabilityRead the full story →

A federal judge held the United States could be sued under the Federal Tort Claims Act for a tree limb that fell on pedestrian Mary Lou Walen during Hurricane Sandy, rejecting the government's sovereign-immunity defense and later denying summary judgment.

U.S. District Court, District of Columbia (Washington, DC) · 2017Premises LiabilityRead the full story →

Price Benowitz brought a federal civil rights and wrongful death suit after Alonzo Smith, 27, died in 2015 while special police officers restrained him face down at a Southeast Washington apartment complex.

U.S. District Court, District of Columbia (Washington, DC) · 2017Wrongful DeathRead the full story →

Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.

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$190 Million Settlement for 8,000 Patients Secretly Recorded by Johns Hopkins Gynecologist
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$54 million+ · $54 Million Settlement for Gambrills Families Whose Drinking Wells Were Poisoned by Coal Ash
Miller & Zois
Miller & Zois
$5.5 Million Verdict After Pacing Wire Removal Kills Bypass Patient
Iamele & Iamele
Iamele & Iamele
$26.99 million · $105 Million Verdict in Off-Duty Officer's Murder of Tristin Little Sr.
Plaxen Adler Muncy Maryland Injury & Accident Lawyers
Plaxen Adler Muncy Maryland Injury & Accident Lawyers
$2.05 million · Jury Awards Calvert County Crash Victim $3.09 Million Against Off-Duty Prince George's Narcotics Officer

Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.