she's really cutthroat and shrewd when it comes to practicing law or running her other companies, so she'd support samantha's being the same way, as well as being impressed by her building her own brand outside of her father's shadow. as for the thom thing, there are some unrequited feelings on her end so she might harbor some resentment towards samantha for that, but all of it would be inward and she wouldn't take it out on her.