Sara, a partner in our Life Sciences Health Industry Group, is a trial-tested litigator. She focuses her practice on health care fraud and abuse matters and counsels her clients in litigation, internal and government investigations, and regulatory enforcement matters. Sara represents health care systems, medical device companies, retail pharmacies, pharmaceutical companies, universities, and government defense contractors.
Sara has particular experience in handling litigation involving the federal False Claims Act and its state law corollaries, including qui tam cases, and related regulatory and administrative matters. She has successfully represented her clients in a wide variety of investigations and disputes involving the Stark Law and Anti-Kickback Statute, Medicare and Medicaid billing requirements, pharmacy discount programs and drug pricing, and claims related to Medicaid supplemental payment programs.
Sara has also represented her clients in antitrust matters, securities investigations and litigation, complex contract and business torts disputes, pharmaceutical and medical device products liability litigation, and medical malpractice litigation. She represents clients across the United States and has handled matters in federal court, state court, and administrative proceedings.
In 2016, Sara was seconded at one of the world's largest plastics, chemical and refining companies, and in 2013, Sara served as a special prosecutor with the City of Houston's Legal Department through a 20-week attorney loan program, during which she tried more than a dozen cases to verdict.
Prior to private practice, Sara clerked for United States District Judge David Hittner in the Southern District of Texas, Houston Division. She assisted Judge Hittner as the lead briefing attorney on numerous cases, including those involving international Ponzi schemes, political bribery, Medicare fraud, trademark, trade secrets, and copyright infringement, complex contract, and employment disputes. Sara's clerkship experience enables her to provide her clients with valuable insight into the judicial process and on the complicated issues that arise in litigation. While in law school, she served as a legal intern for Baylor College of Medicine's General Counsel's Office and Texas Children's Hospital's Risk Management Department.
