Samantha L. Mabe

Samantha Mabe is an employee benefits attorney who advises clients on ERISA, HIPAA, and Internal Revenue Code matters. Her practice includes compliance issues affecting benefit plans and health care organizations.

Samantha also assists businesses and nonprofit organizations with formation and governance. She has prepared organizational documents, tax-exemption applications, and internal policies and analyzed corporate practice of medicine laws for a health care company’s multi-state expansion.

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Education

Seattle University School of Law, J.D., magna cum laude, 2026; Executive Editor at Large, Seattle University Law Review; Research Assistant to Professor Sital Kalantry

University of Washington, B.A., International Studies, 2022

Admissions

Washington

Languages

Employee Benefits and Health Care

• Advises on compliance matters arising under ERISA, HIPAA, and the Internal Revenue Code.
• Researched ERISA compliance issues and prepared related legal memoranda.
• Conducted a nationwide analysis of corporate practice of medicine laws for a health care company’s proposed multistate expansion.

Corporate Governance and Nonprofit Organizations

• Prepared formation and governance documents for corporations and nonprofit organizations, including articles of incorporation, bylaws, meeting notices, and internal policies.
• Assisted a Washington nonprofit corporation with its application for recognition as a tax-exempt organization under Section 501(c)(3).
• Advised on the maintenance and modification of restricted and unrestricted charitable gifts under Washington nonprofit law and UPMIFA

• Scribes Best Law Review Award Nominee, 2026
• Burton Distinguished Legal Writing Award Nominee, 2026
• Laurel Currie Oates Legal Writing Scholarship
• CALI Awards:
  • Nonprofit Organizations Clinic
  • UCC Sales
  • UCC Secured Transactions
  • Contracts
  • Criminal Law

Civic

• Co-President and Co-Founder, Seattle University First Generation Lawyers Coalition, 2024-2025