Sarah Conway works closely with corporations, businesses, and individual clients to bring order to the chaos of high-stakes complex litigation. Sarah advances efficient and responsive litigation strategies for clients based on her experience working on and managing litigation teams on all aspects of litigation, from pretrial pleadings to post-trial motions, and is particularly well-versed in all facets of discovery, including e-discovery, negotiations with opposing counsel and joint defense groups, and fact and expert witness depositions. As a commercial litigator, her practice involves product liability, contracts, fraud, consumer class actions, deceptive trade practices, health care, false claims, and business torts. She has appeared and argued motions in multiple state courts and has defended clients in multiple bench and jury trials as well as in arbitrations.
Sarah's recent matters include successfully leading defensive discovery strategy in numerous concurrent state court actions in headlining nationwide pharmaceutical litigation. Sarah also represented a company in defeating class certification in multiple cases involving allegations that a client's product had a propensity to develop mold. Other highlights include participating in a product liability trial in state court in Orange County, in defense of Yamaha Motor Co. The trial in this "bellwether" case lasted three months and resulted in a complete defense verdict.
Sarah is on the board of governors for the Women Lawyers Association of Los Angeles, the board of directors for the California Women's Law Center, and has spoken and written on ethics, jury instructions for affirmative defenses, and damages awards.
Esperienze
- January 27, 2016
Ethics Lessons We Learned in Law School That Cannot Be Forgotten in the Real World, Jones Day MCLE University - January 22, 2015
Do You Remember the Ethics Lessons We Learned as Third-Year Law Students That Apply in the Real World, Jones Day MCLE University
- Georgetown University (J.D. with honors 2008); New York University (B.A. in History and Gender and Sexuality Studies with honors 2005)
- California
- Named a "Rising Star" by Southern California Super Lawyers (2013-2017)