Sarah’s medical malpractice defense practice spans a broad range of medical specialties, including but not limited to emergency medicine, anesthesiology, general surgery, gastroenterology, radiology, interventional radiology, family medicine, hospitalists, pathology, cardiology, plastic surgery, hand surgery, neurology, and obstetrics. She represents hospital systems, physician groups, insurance companies, physicians (across all specialties), nurses, and mid-level providers, including physician assistants, nurse practitioners, CRNAs, and CAAs.

Sarah is a litigation attorney with experience in complex medical malpractice trials. In addition to trials, she enjoys handling complicated expert depositions, Daubert hearings, and complex damages claims.

Whenever she is assigned a new matter, Sarah immediately strategizes how she can get the case dismissed or minimize damages. This strategy is implemented and reassessed throughout every phase of litigation, with the ultimate goal of client satisfaction.

Before joining Foley, Baron, Metzger & Juip, Sarah was a Partner at a metro-Detroit law firm where she practiced medical malpractice defense. Earlier in her career, Sarah practiced commercial litigation, including the defense of a mortgage company in a wide range of matters, as well as work on mergers and acquisitions.

Sarah is a board member of the Michigan Defense Trial Counsel (MDTC), an association of leading defense attorneys in the State of Michigan, and sits on a variety of the organization’s committees. She was the recipient of the Anita L. Comorski Volunteer of the Year Award in 2023 in recognition of her generous contributions to the mission and goals of the MDTC.

Sarah has been honored with various awards, including Super Lawyers’ 2023 Annual List of “Top Women Attorneys,” Michigan Super Lawyers “Rising Stars” (2022, 2023, 2024, 2025), Michigan Lawyers Weekly Up & Coming Lawyers (2022), and Michigan Lawyers Weekly “Go To” Medical Malpractice Lawyer (2022).

Sarah is frequently a featured speaker within the local legal community. Some of her recent presentations include – How to make your life easier as a defense attorney (2025); Best Practices For Effective (Virtual) Advocacy and Tips for the Young Lawyer (2022); Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in the Modern Practice (2022); and Found Something Good on a Plaintiff’s Social Media Page . . . Now What? (2022); Damages – what is real? (2023); and Diversity, Equity and Inclusion – an update (2023). She also presented at the Oakland County Bar Association (OCBA) Raise the Bar Bench/Bar Conference on the panel How Do We Develop the Next Generation of Trial Lawyers (2023).

She has also presented to medical providers, including physicians at Henry Ford Hospital, University of Michigan – West, and Hurley Medical Center. In addition, she regularly presents to nursing students at Mid Michigan College of Nursing and has presented to midwifery students at the University of Michigan Midwife Program.