Sarah G. Conway

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, 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 through lead advocacy roles in arbitrations. She represents clients in a variety of industries, including retail, food suppliers, health care, finance, and product manufacturers.

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 a three-month product liability trial in state court in Orange County, in defense of Yamaha Motor Co. The trial in this "bellwether" case resulted in a complete defense verdict.

Sarah is on the board of directors for California Women's Law Center and has spoken and written on ethics, jury instructions for affirmative defenses, and developments in the food supplier space.