Sarah Neuman

Career

Sarah Neuman is a Partner at Wilkinson Stekloff. Since joining the firm in 2017, She has been a member of numerous winning trial teams, including most recently playing a key role in the firm’s trial win in the FTC’s suit challenging Microsoft’s $68.7 billion acquisition of Activision Blizzard. Sarah was also a member of the trial team that secured a complete defense verdict in a multi-state consumer fraud class action involving Bayer’s One A Day multivitamins and the trial teams that prevailed in the first two state-court bellwether trials involving Bayer’s Xarelto.

Currently, Sarah serves as a lead member of the team defending Cargill, one of the largest beef producers in the United States, in a series of civil antitrust cases alleging a conspiracy to constrain beef output. She has also been integral to the firm’s representation of industry-leading companies in multiple confidential merger matters at the prelitigation phase.

In recognition of her success, Chambers and Partners has identified Sarah as “Up and Coming” among Antitrust Litigation Specialists, and Legal 500 recommends her for antitrust litigation. In addition, Bloomberg Law honored her among their “Top 40 Under 40”, Benchmark Litigation included her on their “40 & Under” list, and the National Law Journal has named her a D.C. “Rising Star.”

Sarah also maintains an active pro bono practice, focusing on asylum matters.

Before joining the firm, Sarah served as a law clerk to Judge Julie E. Carnes of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit and then-Chief Judge Beryl A. Howell of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. Sarah graduated from The University of Chicago Law School, where she was the Executive Editor of The University of Chicago Law Review.