Sara Fitzpatrick represents clients in all facets of commercial litigation. Prior to joining Keker, Van Nest & Peters, Sara served as a law clerk for Judge Susan Illston of the U.S. District Court of the District of Northern California and Justice Susan Carney of the Alaska Supreme Court. She also served as a staff attorney for Legal Services of Northern California where she represented low-income clients in civil and administrative cases from intake through litigation or settlement.
Sara earned her J.D. from Harvard Law School and her B.A. in political science from Swarthmore College. While in law school, she served as an intern for Protect Democracy and the ACLU of Michigan.
We represented three immigrant families intentionally separated by the Trump Administration in 2018. Asserting novel claims under the Federal Tort Claims Act, we vigorously pursued the case until the eve of trial, when the government agreed to the largest settlement out of any of the fifty similar cases filed nationwide.
In a Law360 Expert Analysis column, Brook Dooley, Sara Fitzpatrick, and Britta Kajimura analyze the U.S. Supreme Court's recent ruling in Kousisis v. U.S., a case addressing the so-called fraudulent inducement theory of mail and wire fraud under Title 18 of the U.S. Code, Sections 1341 and 1343. Read more
In a landmark legal victory, three immigrant families have secured sizable settlements from the U.S. government for trauma suffered during family separations at the southern border in 2018. The settlement, announced in November 2024, represents the largest payout among dozens of similar cases nationwide stemming from the controversial Trump-era family separation policy. Read more
Keker attorneys Brook Dooley, Sara Fitzpatrick and Britta Kajimura analyze Thompson v. United States, a case that goes before the U.S. Supreme Court on Jan. 14 that could add to the court’s recent line of cases narrowing the reach of statutes used to prosecute white-collar crime. Read more
Keker, Van Nest & Peters attorneys Brook Dooley and Sara Fitzpatrick discuss the ripple effects of the High Court's Jan. 6 Riot in a recent piece featured on Law360. Read more
Keker, Van Nest & Peters, representing cities and counties across the nation, filed an amicus curiae brief urging the federal circuit to support transgender veterans' access to gender-confirmation surgery. Read more
Just One Cookie? Supreme Court to Decide Liability for Half-Truths, The Recorder, 2025, co-authored with Brook Dooley and Britta Kajimura
High Court's Jan. 6 Rioter Case May Have Wide Ripple Effects, Law360, 2024, co-authored with Brook Dooley