Sarah Kirkpatrick focuses her practice on complex commercial litigation, including antitrust, securities, director and officer liability, and financial services matters. She has litigated cases at both the trial and appellate level, in both state and federal courts. She has experience representing clients, including pharmaceutical companies, private equity firms, broker dealers, Fortune 100 companies, media companies, and individuals, in a wide range of business disputes.
Sarah was raised in Portland, Oregon and graduated magna cum laude with a B.A. in History and Law, Jurisprudence and Social Thought from Amherst College in 2000. She earned a M.A. in History from University of Virginia in 2006. She received her J.D. the same year from University of Virginia School of Law, where she was a member of the Order of the Coif and an Articles Editor of the Virginia Law Review. Sarah clerked for Judge Kermit V. Lipez of the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit before joining Williams & Connolly in 2007.
Sarah is a member of the firm’s Real Estate, Pro Bono and Alumni Outreach committees. Benchmark Litigation named Sarah to their 2023 “Future Stars” list. She has been selected to the Super Lawyers 2014-2017 Washington, D.C. “Rising Stars” lists.
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