Sara Clark is a Partner in Quinn Emanuel’s Houston and Washington, D.C. offices. As a member of the firm’s Government Enforcement and White Collar Criminal Defense, Crisis Law and Strategy, and Latin American practice groups, she focuses her practice on complex and sensitive international and domestic internal and government investigations, as well as cross-border disputes. She advises clients on a broad range of international and domestic white-collar issues, including corruption, fraud, sanctions, international regulatory matters, money laundering, False Claims Act violations, and crisis management, with a particular focus on Latin American issues. While her representations often focus on obtaining negotiated resolutions out of court and without indictment, she also has criminal trial and appellate experience. She joined the firm in 2017 after completing a clerkship for the Honorable Priscilla R. Owen of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. She is also an adjunct professor at the University of Texas School of Law, where she teaches a fall semester course in White Collar Criminal Defense and Government Investigations.
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- Trial and appellate counsel to Hamid Akhavan in federal fraud trial (SDNY)
- Trial counsel to Alec Baldwin in New Mexico manslaughter trial
- Counsel to Charlie Javice in federal fraud trial (SDNY)
- Counsel to B-Mex in international arbitration proceedings related to Mexican gaming permits
- Counsel to the Office of the Attorney General for the Commonwealth of Virginia in connection with an investigation by the University of Virginia
- Counsel to the State of Nebraska in connection with data breach claims related to the Change Healthcare data breach
- The University of Texas School of Law
- (J.D., honors, 2016)
- Texas Law Review:
- Articles Editor (2015-2016)
- Member (2014-2105)
- Texas Law Review:
- The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- (B.A., Political Science and Contemporary European Studies, 2011)
- The State Bar of Texas
- District of Columbia Bar
- United States Court of Appeals:
- Fifth Circuit
- United States District Courts:
- Southern District of Texas
- Eastern District of Michigan
- Spanish
- Law Clerk to the Honorable Priscilla Owen:
- United States Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, 2016-2017
Ranked in The Best Lawyers in America: Ones to Watch for Commercial Litigation, 2022-2025
- Adjunct Professor, University of Texas School of Law (White Collar Defense and Government Investigations, Fall Semester (2023-current)