Biography
In particular, Sarah has deep experience litigating antitrust cases at the trial level. She has served leading roles on teams litigating against federal and state regulators in litigation challenging mergers, as well as private antitrust litigation under the Sherman and Clayton Acts. Some of Sarah’s antitrust experience includes:
- Representing a major food retailer in multiple bench trials against federal and state regulators challenging a proposed merger.
- Representing a major healthcare company in a federal bench trial challenging a proposed merger.
- Representing a live concerts industry group in a rate-court proceeding pursuant to a consent decree.
- Representing companies in private antitrust litigation under the Sherman Act and state consumer protection statutes.
Sarah’s other notable experience includes the following :
- Representing a Fortune 500 company in significant post-judgment proceedings arising out of a patent judgment.
- Representing a pharmaceutical company in Federal Circuit and Supreme Court appeals relating to insulin formulations and insulin delivery devices, including argument in the Federal Circuit.
- Representing life sciences, technology, and consumer products companies in complex patent infringement and invalidity appeals in the Federal Circuit.
- Advising a court-appointed Special Master overseeing the judicial sale of a major energy company.
- Representing technology and real estate holding and management companies in their appeals arising out of chapter 11 bankruptcy filings.
- Representing a jewelry company and its affiliates in multiple high-profile appeals raising important class certification issues, including a Rule 23(f) petition to the Second Circuit in a securities fraud class action, and an appeal relating to an employment class arbitration.
- Authoring amicus briefs for industry groups addressing the application of public-nuisance law to claims against energy companies.
Sarah maintains an active pro bono practice focused on constitutional and civil-rights litigation, including reproductive rights litigation, gun safety, and religious freedom. Among her notable experience, Sarah successfully argued an appeal before the Eleventh Circuit, securing a reversal for her client in a religious freedom case, and upon remand, successfully argued against summary judgment, permitting her client’s First and Eighth Amendment claims to proceed to trial.
Prior to joining Weil, Sarah served as a law clerk for Judge Jill Pryor of the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit. She also worked in the litigation and appellate practices at other well-known international and U.S. law firms, where she focused on a broad range of disputes, including a significant antitrust multi-district litigation, shareholder class actions, bankruptcy litigation, and patent and IP licensing disputes.
Sarah is actively involved in Firm and other professional organizations, including serving in leadership roles in the UJA Young Lawyers Leadership Committee and Women@Weil. Sarah has been published in a variety of publications, including Slate and the Emory Law Journal.
Sarah received her J.D. from Emory Law School in 2013, where she graduated with honors and as a member of Order of the Coif. Sarah received her B.A. from the University of Virginia in 2009.