Attorneys
Sarah focuses her practice on appellate advocacy, business and commercial litigation, administrative and regulatory litigation, and estate litigation.
While at Robinson Gray, Sarah has written numerous appellate briefs on a variety of legal issues. Sarah’s business litigation practice includes a wide variety of business disputes, including contractual disputes as well as legal actions between members of limited liability companies. Sarah also defends governmental entities and public officials against an assortment of claims in state and federal court. Through her diverse practice and experience as a judicial law clerk, Sarah has gained experience handling class actions, complex appeals, declaratory judgment actions, and injunctions.
Sarah graduated from Clemson University in 2016 with a bachelor’s degree in marketing. She received her Juris Doctor in 2020 from the University of South Carolina School of Law, where she graduated magna cum laude, was the Associate Managing Editor of the South Carolina Law Review, and was a member of the Order of the Coif. Sarah served as a judicial law clerk to the Honorable John Cannon Few of the Supreme Court of South Carolina from 2020 to 2022.
- Represented government entities, businesses, and individuals in various appeals before the South Carolina Court of Appeals, the Supreme Court of South Carolina, and the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, and assisted lawyers in preparing briefs on appeal.
- Represented business owners in litigated disputes with other businesses.
- Pursued and defended breach of contract claims in wide variety of pre-litigation and litigated contexts.
- Represented public officials and state agencies in state and federal court in constitutional litigation and class action lawsuits.
- Represented state political party in various fora concerning election protests, qualification issues, and other election-related matters.
- Represented homeowners’ associations in lawsuits brought by disgruntled homeowners.
- Represented Personal Representatives and heirs before the probate court in estate disputes involving, among other matters, the removal of personal representative for lack of diligence or conflict of interest/self-dealing , the interpretation of Wills or intestate laws, and the distribution of estate assets.
Professional
- Federal Bar Association
- Board Member (2023 to present)
- Richland County Bar Association
- South Carolina Bar Association
- Committee Member for Midland Cinderella Project, Young Lawyers Division (2023-Present)
- Committee Member for Membership Events Committee, Young Lawyers Division (2023- Present)
- South Carolina Defense Trial Attorneys’ Association
- Judicial Clerk, the Honorable John Cannon Few, Supreme Court of South Carolina (August 2020-July 2022)
Bar Admissions
- South Carolina Bar
Court Admissions
- U.S. District Court for the District of South Carolina
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
Education
- University of South Carolina School of Law, J.D, magna cum laude (2020)
- Order of the Coif
- Order of the Wig and Robe
- South Carolina Law Review
- Associate Managing Editor, Volume 71
- CALI Award for Excellence Recipient: Criminal Law; Criminal Procedure; Employment Discrimination; Trial Advocacy; Appellate Advocacy
- Clemson University, (2016)
- Bachelor of Science, Marketing
- Minor in Economics