Syed Sami Ahmad, after graduating in Economics and Political Science, obtained the degree of Law from the University of Karachi in 1953. He comes from the well- known family of judges and lawyers. His Uncles, Sir Ali Imam and Hassan Imam were eminent jurists - jurists of All-India fame; another Uncle Syed Amin Ahmed was the first Muslim ICS Officer from Bihar; his father the late Syed Muhammad Sabih, one of the leading lawyers of Bihar, was a Public Prosecutor and Government Advocate just before the partition of India.
He was enrolled as an Advocate of the Chief Court of Sindh on January 19, 1955; of the Supreme Court of Pakistan on June 30, 1964.