Sarah E. Robertson

A highly-experienced litigator, Sarah focuses her practice on the defense of discrimination, harassment and retaliation claims, as well as claims relating to medical leave issues. In addition, Sarah litigates actions relating to wage and hour issues, unfair competition and misappropriation of trade secrets.  Her practice also includes a robust component of counseling, training and policy development; she advises employers on the full range of employment law compliance topics.

Sarah is an Adjunct Professor at Tulane Law School in the Masters of Jurisprudence in Labor and Employment Law program.  The program is an online executive masters degree program aimed at human resource professionals and business owners.  Sarah designed, created, and teaches a semester-long requisite course on employee medical leaves of absence.  She is delighted to teach in this innovative program offered by her alma mater.

Sarah especially enjoys explaining the law and the legal process to non-lawyers.  Her experience has been that conflicts in the workplace, and even litigation, can produce positive change within companies if the lawyer handling the matter takes care to listen, adapt to change, and keep the client’s business objectives at the forefront of the strategy at all times.

• Recognized in The Best Lawyers in America^® for Employment Law – Management (2023-2024)
• Martindale-Hubbell AV Preeminent® Peer Rated for Highest Level of Professional Excellence
• Northern California Super Lawyers^® (2008-2019)
• Top Rated Lawyer in Labor & Employment Law, ALM (2019)

• Alameda County Bar Association, Labor & Employment Section
  • Executive Committee (2016-present)

Sarah loves to sing: into a microphone, with a band, a cappella, you name it.

• "Pitfalls in Employment Settlement Cases," California Continuing Education of the Bar Webinar, March 2019
• "Harassment Prevention in the #MeToo Era," presented to the Marin Country Employers Advisory Council, March 2019
• "Increasing the Diversity of Legal & Corporate Leadership," presented to the Women Diversity & Change Conference, San Francisco, CA, November 2018
• "#PayMeToo - Navigating the New Landscape of Pay Equity Laws"(Moderator), Association of Corporate Counsel, April 2018