Sarah represents pro bono clients and manages pro bono initiatives in the firm's southeastern offices. She is dedicated to addressing the civil legal aid crisis and advancing equal access to justice.
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As pro bono director and counsel, Sarah leads and facilitates the pro bono practice across several of the firm's offices, including Atlanta, Charlotte, Raleigh, Richmond, and Virginia Beach. She collaborates with firm attorneys, in-house legal departments, and community organizations to meet the legal needs of vulnerable and underrepresented clients. Sarah focuses her personal practice on addressing social problems that contribute to poor health outcomes and health disparities, such as unlawful evictions, poor housing conditions, and access to education.
Prior to shifting her focus to pro bono, Sarah represented electric and gas utilities at another AmLaw 100 firm in complex regulatory litigation before state utility commissions, focusing on clean energy development; integrated resource planning; and first-of-their-kind proceedings in Virginia on grid modernization, energy storage, and transportation electrification.
Sarah served as a law clerk to the Honorable John A. Gibney, Jr., of the United Stated District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia. While in law school, Sarah served as manuscripts editor for the University of Richmond Law Review and chancellor of the Walter Scott McNeill Law Honor Society. She graduated first in her law school class.
Sarah is a member of the Emerging Leaders Council of the Legal Services Corporation, a publicly-funded non-profit corporation established by Congress to ensure equal access to justice under the law for all Americans by providing funding for civil legal aid to those otherwise unable to afford it. She also serves as chair-elect of the Richmond Bar Association Pro Bono Committee.
Pro Bono
Energy Regulation
Civil Litigation
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