Sara McGrane

Practice Areas

Representation, counseling, and litigation defense of employers in all areas of employment law including defending discrimination claims before all agencies and courts, employee relations, employee complaints, the FMLA, ADA, FLSA (and state wage and hour laws), wrongful termination, investigation of employee complaints and cultural/climate assessments, hiring and firing, sexual and unlawful harassment, discrimination, conducting investigations, alcohol and drug testing, and reductions in force.

Career

Sara has 30 years of experience in partnering with clients in all aspects of employment law issues, from advice and counsel, to investigations and assessments, to defending charges, to litigating cases through federal and state courts, and through the appeals process. Sara understands her clients' businesses and partners with them in developing strategies and solutions for their employment law issues. Sara has represented employers in over two dozen bench and jury trials, mostly from start to finish, but occasionally taking over the representation shortly before trial, with a high success rate.

Professional Memberships

Minnesota and Hennepin County Bar Associations, MSBA Labor & Employment Law Section, Inducted as a Fellow in the College of Labor and Employment Lawyers, 2020

Personal

J.D., University of Minnesota, 1990

B.S., Moorhead State University, summa cum laude, 1987