Samuel N. Fraidin is a graduate of Yale College (B.A. 1989), Yale Law School (J.D. 1995) and the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (Ph.D. 2002). Before joining the Firm in 2005, He served as an instructor at University of Southern California Law School and spent one year as a John M. Olin, Jr. research fellow at Columbia Law School writing about the law and psychology of corporate board decision making. He also worked for one summer at Sullivan & Cromwell LLP, one summer in the General Legal Services division of the Office of Chief Counsel at the Internal Revenue Service, and spent one year studying computer science at Stanford University.