OVERVIEW
Experience
Sarah’s practice focuses on complex litigation including antitrust, financial services, and commercial disputes.
Sarah represents clients in litigation for harm suffered throughout the world, using innovative solutions to provide exceptional advocacy. Sarah has prosecuted claims of nascent competitors and small businesses challenging anticompetitive conduct by dominant market players, and she has represented state entities in commercial disputes. Sarah has obtained discovery in the United States for non-U.S. litigants through 28 U.S.C. § 1782. Her experience spans a wide range of complex litigation, and her efforts have helped clients recover more than $2.3 billion in settlements.
Sarah’s commitment to the advancement of global antitrust and competition law is demonstrated through her role as Managing Editor of Hausfeld’s Competition Bulletin. As the only Plaintiff’s-side antitrust publication dedicated to insights into noteworthy antitrust investigations, judgments, regulatory decisions, and competition law developments in the United States, the UK, and Europe, the Bulletin is widely recognized as market-leading by peers, clients, and the judiciary.
Clients
Sarah’s clients include investors, multinational corporations, public entities, non-profit organizations, technology companies and small businesses. Sarah currently represents individual and institutional investors, U.S. manufacturers, and a technology start-up. Her former clients include art house cinemas challenging a dominant competitor, a leading software manufacturer challenging patent infringements, a royalty-rights holder in the college athletics space, and an industry organization in the first amendment sphere.
EDUCATION
American University Washington College of Law, J.D. (summa cum laude, order of the coif), 2014
University of Ottawa, J.D. (cum laude), 2014
McMaster University, BA (Hons., summa cum laude), 2008
BAR ADMISSIONS
District of Columbia
New York
United States Court of Federal Claims
United States District Court for the District of Columbia
United States District Court for the Southern District of New York
AFFILIATIONS
American Bar Association Antitrust Law Section, Vice Chair, Books and Treatises Committee (2023-2024)
American Bar Association Antitrust Law Section, Vice Chair, Civil Practice and Procedure Committee (2020-2022)
American Bar Association Antitrust Law Section, Young Lawyer’s Representative, Civil Practice and Procedure Committee (2019-2020)
American Bar Association Antitrust Law Section, Member
Administrative Law Review, Senior Note and Comment Editor (2013-2014)
United States Court of Federal Claims, Judicial law clerk to the Honorable Victor J. Wolski (2014-2015)
Prior to law school, Sarah worked for the Canadian Member of Parliament Scott Reid, and in that role served as the Associate Director of the Canadian Parliamentary Coalition for Combating Antisemitism.
NEWS
EVENTS
Other events Sarah has been asked to speak at include:
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- "Under the Umbrella: Antitrust Panel," ABA Antitrust Spring Meeting (March 30, 2023), Session Chair & Moderator
- "The State of Leniency," GCR Live 4th Annual Cartels (March 26, 2019), Panelist
- "Why Antitrust," ABA Section of Antitrust Law, American university Washington College of Law, (Oct. 23, 2018), Panelist
PUBLICATIONS
Sarah's other publications include:
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- "The Equitable Future of Intercollegiate Athletics," Competition Policy International's Antitrust Chronicle (April 28, 2020), Co-Author
- "The Volkswagen Scandal: Catalyst For Class Action Change?" Law360 (Feb. 27, 2018), Co-Author
PERSPECTIVES
WHAT OTHERS SAY
National Law Journal
- Rising Star, Elite Trial Lawyers, 2022
American Antitrust Institute
- Outstanding Antitrust Litigation Achievement by a Young Lawyer: an honor she received in 2018 for her work on In re Foreign Exchange Benchmark Rates Antitrust Litigation.
Best Lawyers
- One to Watch since 2020
- Antitrust Law
- Litigation - Antitrust
Law360
- Rising Star, Competition Law in 2019
Super Lawyers
- Rising Star, Antitrust Litigation in Washington, DC since 2020
Other
- Recipient of The Mussey Prize for the Highest Scholastic Average in the Final Year of Study by the American University Washington College of Law.