Dworkin Investigations, LLC (VA DCJS License 117403) is a private Mitigation and Investigation firm owned and operated in the Northern Virginia area by Samuel W. Dworkin. Sam is a Mitigation Specialist and Investigator with over 20 years experience in Capital and Indigent Criminal Defense. He was previously employed at the N. Virginia Capital Defender Office for over 5 years. In early 2012, Sam formed his own practice, Dworkin Investigations, LLC, and has been appointed to capital (and serious felony) cases throughout the country. He has an undergraduate degree in Psychology from Pennsylvania State University and a Masters Degree in Forensic Psychology from Marymount University. Sam is devoted to indigent and criminal defense cases, sentencing, and merits investigations. He currently works both state and federal cases in all stages (pre-trial, habeas and post-conviction, juvenile and adult re-sentencing, etc). He is an accomplished trainer and presenter at national and local levels, as well as testifying expert. From the Fall of 2013 – 2017, he was also an Adjunct Professor, co-teaching the course “The Death Penalty and Mitigation” to graduate level students at Marymount University’s department of Forensic and Legal Psychology. In 2016 he was published, as a co-author of the chapter “Capital Case Sentencing Evaluations” in the textbook Inside Forensic Psychology. 

Sam  takes private and court appointment across the country as an Investigator as well. He has worked with regional branches of The Innocence Project conducting investigations and post juror interviews. Mr. Dworkin has also aided in Post-Conviction, Civil, and other Criminal investigative work.

Sam has considerable experience in foreign investigative travel. He has also provided  courtroom testimony, and has been Court Qualified as an Expert in the field of Mitigation. Sam not only attends and presents at, but also plans, Capital Defense workshops and conferences for the Virginia American Bar Association, as well as NASAMS (The National Alliance of Sentencing Advocates and Mitigation Specialists). He is a former Executive Committee member of NASAMS (the Vice Chair). From 2018 to the present, Sam has also served as a Mitigation Specialist and Expert in numerous Juvenile Resentencing Hearings in the DC Superior Court under IRAA/SLA (the Incarceration Reduction Amendment Act / Second Look Act). Please do not hesitate to contact Sam to discuss how he could assist you.