Practice Focus
Sarah is a partner and Co-Chair of the Insurance Services Practice Group at Tressler. She focuses her practice on a wide range of insurance coverage analyses and litigation. Sarah represents insurance companies in complex coverage litigation pending throughout the country in both state and federal courts. These actions involve various coverage lines, including commercial general liability, professional liability, management liability, excess exposures and extracontractual liability. She also has significant experience in defending underlying claims including handling matters through mediation, arbitration and trial.
Prior to joining Tressler, Sarah was an associate at a global law firm where she gained experience representing domestic and international insurers in complex coverage disputes involving sexual misconduct allegations. Sarah also previously acted as defense counsel for a wide range of clients, including Fortune 500 corporations, involved in complex commercial and toxic tort litigation.
Sarah is a magna cum laude graduate from Loyola University Chicago School of Law. During law school, she held several law clerk positions and also served as a judicial extern for the Honorable Judge Raul Vega, Circuit Court of Cook County, Illinois in the Domestic Relations Division. Sarah obtained certificates in both Advocacy and Child and Family Law.
Sarah was recently selected by her peers as a 2025 Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch in America™.
- Chicago Bar Association
- Women’s Bar Association of Illinois
- Professional Liability Underwriting Society
- American Bar Association Business Law Section
In her spare time, Sarah enjoys traveling, concerts, running, and spending time with her husband and young son. Sarah and her family enjoy visiting the many excellent restaurants that Chicago has to offer, and traveling to a ranch in northern Michigan where they spend time horseback riding.