Samuel Budnyk

Levin Papantonio

316 S. Baylen Street, Suite 600
Pensacola, FL 32502-5996

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Florida
Massachusetts
U.S. District Court Northern District of Florida

Education

Fredric G. Levin College of Law, University of Florida, Juris Doctor (2024)
Honors: Cum Laude
Honors: Florida Law Review, Senior Managing Editor
Honors: Florida Moot Court, Secretary
Honors: Book Awards for Highest Grades in American Legal Thought and Depositions
Honors: Dean’s List

Harvard University, Philosophiae Doctor (ongoing)
Honors: Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning Teaching Certificate

Harvard University, Artis Magister (2022)
Honors: Richard F. French Fellowship

Christ Church, University of Oxford, Master of Philosophy (2019)

Emory University, Bachelor of Arts (2017)
Honors: Charles Elias Shepard Scholarship for Graduate Study
Honors: Omicron Delta Kappa National Leadership Honor Society
Honors: Delta Phi Alpha National German Honor Society
Honors: Phi Sigma Iota International Foreign Language Honor Society
Honors: Stipe Society for Creative Scholars
Honors: Emory University Dean’s Music Scholar
Honors: Dean’s List

Publications

“Damned if we do, or damned if we don’t? Litigation AI.” (Co-Author). Journal of the Florida Justice Association, vol. no. 643: 81–83. January/February 2025.

Presentations

“Beyond Genius to Ownership in the Early 19th Century.” Presentation on the panel
Musical Ownership and Value in the 19th Century at the American Musicological Society–Society of Music Theory Joint Annual Meeting 2025. Minneapolis, MN.
November 9, 2025.

“He not busy being born is busy dying.” 75-minute Lecture for CLS-STDY/HUMAN
166 Bob Dylan the Classic. Harvard University, Cambridge, MA. October 23, 2025.

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Sam Budnyk is an attorney at Levin Papantonio. He graduated from Emory University with a Bachelor of Arts in Comparative Literature (French, German, Latin) and Music Composition, and graduated cum laude from the Fredric G. Levin College of Law, University of Florida.

Mr. Budnyk is currently working on the Depo-Provera (Depot Medroxyprogesterone Acetate) Products Liability Litigation. He has previously worked on the Allergan Biocell Textured Breast Implant Products Liability Litigation, as well as various medical negligence cases.

While in law school, Mr. Budnyk was a senior managing editor of the Florida Law Review and an executive board member of the Florida Moot Court Team, in addition to his position as the Executive Vice President of Administrative Affairs for the John Marshall Bar Association and Justice of the Phi Alpha Delta Law Fraternity. He also served one summer as a Certified Legal Intern at the Office of the State Attorney for the First Judicial Circuit of Florida, where he conducted two jury trials in addition to arguing motions in open court.

A Panhandle native, Mr. Budnyk grew up in the area and enjoys long walks, playing music, and reading about the latest developments in artificial intelligence. Mr. Budnyk holds graduate degrees in historical musicology from Christ Church, University of Oxford, and from Harvard University, where he is presently writing his doctoral dissertation on the evolution of intellectual property law and its role in the development of Western art music.