Sarah C. Thompson is a Partner in the Hartford office and a member of the firm’s Product Liability practice. Her work focuses on environmental law, product liability, consumer disputes, and toxic and mass torts.

She has extensive experience representing clients in civil matters involving the solar industry, wetlands use and permitting, and workplace exposure litigation for energy companies. She has successfully litigated numerous cases through arbitration, securing several fully favorable defense awards. She previously served as an ORISE Research Fellow with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, where she focused on environmental law and its impact on national public policy.

  • Smart Growth Fixes for Climate Adaptation and Resilience: Changing Land Use and Building Codes to Prepare for Climate Change (US EPA, Office of Policy, Jan. 2017).
  • The BP Gulf Oil Spill: What We Have Learned About Civil Liability, and Shared Responsibility– 15 LOY. MAR. L. J. 249 (Spring 2016).
  • Authored HB 730, the Farm-to-School bill introduced by Representative Ebony Woodruff and signed into law during the 2015 Louisiana legislative session.
  • Authored Secret Science and Agency Decision Making, DRI For the Defense (forthcoming July, 2021)

  • Motion Practice: Using Movement, Posture, and other Nonverbal Communication to Sway the Fact-finder, Women’s Energy Network Conference, New Orleans, LA (November, 2019)

Admissions

  • Louisiana
  • Connecticut

Memberships

  • Louisiana Bar Association
  • American Bar Association

Education

  • J.D., Loyola University New Orleans College of Law, 2016
    • Editor, Maritime Law Journal
    • Order of Barristers
    • Oralist and Coach, PACE Environmental Moot Court competition
  • B.A., Political Science, University of California, Irvine, 2011

Honors

  • Donald W. Rees National GRSM Oral Advocacy Competition for Associates and Senior Counsel, 3rd Place, 2022