About
Sarah is a senior associate with experience litigating complex commercial disputes in federal and state courts nationwide, with an emphasis on legal strategy, motion practice, and appeals. She has represented global pharmaceutical and medical device companies in multidistrict litigation, as well as life sciences companies, insurers, real estate companies, and growers’ associations in high-stakes and appellate litigation. Sarah has also contributed to amicus briefs and pro bono immigration briefing before federal appellate courts. Additionally, she has represented businesses, secured and unsecured creditors, and financial institutions through the bankruptcy process, as well as in pre-bankruptcy workouts and restructurings, commercial foreclosures, and judgment enforcement proceedings.
Before joining Hilgers, Sarah was an associate at Hill Ward Henderson in Tampa, FL and at Bradley Arant Boult Cummings in its Birmingham, AL office. Sarah also served as a law clerk for the Honorable Kevin C. Newsom of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit.
Sarah received her J.D. from the University of Alabama School of Law, where she was a Dean’s Scholar and Hugo L. Black Scholar award recipient, and she served as a senior editor for the Alabama Law Review. During law school, Sarah was an Honors Intern for the Federal Bureau of Investigation. She held a Top Secret security clearance and spent over a year attached to a white-collar crime squad in the FBI’s Birmingham Field Office.
Before law school, Sarah earned a B.S.B.A. in Economics and a B.A. in Political Science from the University of Florida. She worked as a research assistant for the College of Medicine’s Institute for Child Health Policy, conducting research to promote the health of children, adolescents, and young adults with a focus on examining factors that contribute to disparities in health and healthcare outcomes for minority and underserved children and youth. Sarah later worked as an assistant in the overarching Department of Health Outcomes & Biomedical Informatics, and she also served as a teaching and research assistant in the undergraduate business law program.
