Sarah Salomon

Partner

Sarah Salomon represents clients in high stakes commercial litigation. Sarah has worked on a wide variety of successful trial teams, including two complicated arbitrations, one for a large tech client, and the other for a law firm alleging trade secret misappropriation. Her experience includes trade secret cases involving employee mobility, commercial disputes implicating federal export law, and civil rights actions.

Sarah is currently defending OpenAI in consolidated copyright lawsuits — including putative class action claims — that will establish the boundaries of copyright fair use as applied to generative AI. Sarah has worked in house on secondment to a large Silicon Valley-based tech company; during her tenure she directed litigation strategy and supervised outside counsel for more than 30 lawsuits. She is also representing Major League Baseball in high-stakes litigation with one of its ticketing partners.

Sarah was part of a team representing 270 consolidated habeas petitioners against the warden of San Quentin and the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation after an unprecedented Covid-19 outbreak resulted in 2,197 prisoners infected and 28 deaths. In its order, the court found numerous constitutional violations and wrote CDCR and the Warden caused “the worst epidemiological disaster in California correctional history.”

Sarah also helped secure the freedom of Zavion Johnson, who spent nearly 17 years in prison after being wrongfully convicted of murder.

Cases of Note

  • OpenAI Copyright Cases

    OpenAI tapped Keker as lead trial counsel in a series of copyright lawsuits that will establish the boundaries of copyright fair use as applied to generative AI. The cases include…

  • CEDC v. Bessent

    We represent taxpayer and immigrant advocates in filing suit against the government to halt ICE from accessing protected taxpayer data. The court issued a preliminary injunction prohibiting ICE and DHS…

  • Wilbur P.G. v. USA

    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…

  • Harkins v. Major League Baseball

    We successfully resolved a defamation and false light case filed against MLB and the Los Angeles Angels. An investigation revealed that Plaintiff Brian “Bubba” Harkins made and supplied a foreign…

News & Events

Publications and Presentations

  • “Pro Bono for In-House Counsel,” Keker, Van Nest & Peters CLE Annual Workshop, March 2026 
  • “Does Your Boss Own Your Brain?” Today’s General Counsel, 2018, co-authored with Warren Braunig