Sarah’s medical malpractice defense practice spans a broad range of medical specialties, including general surgery, gastroenterology, radiology, family medicine, pathology, emergency medicine, anesthesiology, cardiology, and obstetrics. She represents hospital systems, physician groups, insurance companies, physicians (in all specialties), nurses, and mid-level providers.
Sarah is also experienced in handling complex issues involving electronic medical records (EMRs), including complicated audit trail issues, and analyzing metadata to determine whether any changes were made to records, whether certain records were accessed, and whether different versions of records were provided and resulted in any changes in the data produced. She also enjoys handling Daubert hearings and providing clients with a thorough damage analysis.
Before joining Foley, Baron, Metzger & Juip, Sarah was a Partner at a metro-Detroit law firm where she practiced medical malpractice defense. Early in her career Sarah practiced commercial litigation including the defense of a mortgage company in all types of matters, as well as working on merger and acquisition matters.
Sarah is a board member for the Michigan Defense Trial Counsel (MDTC), an association of leading lawyers in the State of Michigan and sits on a variety of the organization’s committees including the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committee. 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.
Cherry is also a member of the Oakland County Bar Association (OCBA), The Detroit Metropolitan Bar Association, the Women Lawyers Association of Michigan – Wayne County and the Wayne County Bar Association. Sarah has been honored with various awards, including Super Lawyers 2023 Annual List of “Top Women Attorneys,” Michigan Super Lawyers “Rising Stars” (2022), 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 – 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). 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).
Michigan Defense Trial Counsel, November 2022
Michigan Defense Trial Counsel, November 2022
Michigan Defense Trial Counsel, April 2022
Oakland County Bar Association (OCBA) Raise the Bar Bench/Bar Conference Panelist, March 2023
She was born in Canada, but grew up in Texas. She eventually moved back to Canada, however, she could not stay away from the US for too long. Sarah moved to Michigan for law school and officially became a US citizen in 2017 (which was way overdue as she spent most of her life in the US).
Sarah has a young son and enjoys taking him to the zoo, feeding giraffes at drive through safaris, and baking muffins and pancakes on Saturday mornings.
She also enjoys wine tastings, gardening, and really nice shoes.
Thomas M. Cooley Law School, J.D. (Cum Laude), 2013
Laurentian University, Barrie, Ontario, Bachelor of Business Administration, 2010, B.A. (Political Science), 2008
Sarah dreams of one day traveling to Italy and France.
Erin Brockovich
Steak and sushi
Moms and medical providers