Overview

Sarah Silverton is special counsel in the firm’s complex commercial litigation group, specializing in appellate litigation. She has worked on matters as varied as national reinsurance indemnity, securities law, land use and water rights, federal jurisdiction, antitrust, intellectual property and entertainment contracts. Prior to joining LTL, Sarah served as a litigation attorney with Munger, Tolles & Olson’s Los Angeles office. She started her career as a law clerk to Hon. Thomas P. Griesa, at the time the Chief Judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, before moving on to clerk for the Hon. Pamela A. Rymer of the 9^th Circuit Court of Appeals. Sarah then spent one term with the Office of the Prosecutor in the Hague, Netherlands, working for the United Nations War Crimes Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia. Before graduating with honors from Stanford Law School, Sarah served as a Notes Editor on the Stanford Law Review and interned on federal appellate cases with the Hon. William W. Shwarzer of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California, sitting by designation as a circuit judge.

Education

Stanford Law School (J.D., with honors, 1999)
Harvard University (B.A., magna cum laude)

Prior Affiliations

Munger, Tolles & Olson LLP
Office of the Prosecutor, U.N. War Crimes Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia
Law Clerk, Hon. Pamela A. Rymer, 9th Circuit
Law Clerk, Hon. Thomas P. Griesa, SDNY