McDermott Will & Schulte, a global law firm

Her experience encompasses a wide variety of substantive legal issues, including matters involving federal practice and jurisdiction, constitutional law, preemption, administrative law, the False Claims Act, intellectual property, antitrust, the Federal Arbitration Act, insurance and taxation.

Sarah has particular experience handling appeals and dispositive motions on legal issues affecting healthcare and life sciences companies, including Medicare, ERISA and FEHB preemption and coverage issues, intellectual property disputes, challenges to regulations, antitrust issues and False Claims Act cases. She also advises technology companies with regulatory challenges, licensing disputes, intellectual property and state taxation.

Sarah is a visiting clinical lecturer in law at Yale Law School, where she co-directs the Yale Supreme Court Advocacy Clinic.

Previously, Sarah clerked for Judge Michael S. Kanne of the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. While in law school, she was the symposium editor of the Notre Dame Law Review.

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• Secured dismissal with prejudice of appeal from an order granting motion to dismiss insurance-coverage claims related to the COVID-19 pandemic
• Won vacatur of an order denying motion to compel arbitration against state insurance liquidator (Atkins v. CGI Technologies and Solutions Inc. (6th Cir.))
• Won affirmance of district court’s dismissal of plaintiff’s Lanham Act false-advertising claims with prejudice (Wysong Corp. v. Mars Petcare US. (6th Cir.))
• Won before the en banc Third Circuit and the Eighth Circuit a holding that the government has waived sovereign immunity for certain intentional torts committed by Transportation Security Officers (Pellegrino v. Transportation Security Administration (3d Cir.); Iverson v. United States (8th Cir.))
• Won before the en banc Fourth Circuit vacatur of a Board of Immigration Appeals decision denying asylum, withholding of removal, and Convention Against Torture relief (Portillo Flores v. Garland (4th Cir.))
• Supported trial team in securing a multimillion-dollar verdict, the first jury verdict under the new federal Defend Trade Secrets Act (Dalmatia Import Group v. FoodMatch Inc. (E.D. Pa.))

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