Sarah R. Marmor
Of Counsel
Sarah R. Marmor has tried cases throughout the United States, in state courts in Illinois, Colorado, Oklahoma, Louisiana and Texas and in federal courts in Illinois, Michigan and New York. Most recently, Ms. Marmor first-chaired trials in Philadelphia and Denver for a significant private equity fund involving issues of fiduciary duty to creditors and claims of alter ego and fraud. Both trials resulted in defense verdicts for Ms. Marmor’s clients.
Ms. Marmor has significant experience defending clients in breast implant, tobacco and asbestos litigation, and also has represented a broad range of clients in employment counseling and litigation, securities lawsuits, private equity-related matters, commercial contract disputes and insurance coverage litigation. Ms. Marmor was a member of the team that defended a multinational chemical company in the first and only breast implant class action suit ever certified. Ms. Marmor also helped represent the same chemical company in an environmental insurance coverage suit against over 25 insurers in Detroit, Michigan. She also helped successfully defend a major tobacco company in a landmark RICO and consumer fraud suit brought by an asbestos trust against the entire tobacco industry. She also has developed significant experience in consumer fraud litigation, with cases in Madison County, Illinois; Chicago, Illinois; and San Diego, California.
In addition to her litigation work, Ms. Marmor has represented a range of clients in the entertainment field, including bands, media companies and several Chicago nightclubs.
Ms. Marmor was the Associate Director of a two-year project investigating ethics and the “gatekeeping professions” in the wake of Enron and other scandals. Entitled “Capitalism and the Importance of Trust,” Yale University Law School and Columbia University Center on Corporate Governance were University sponsors. Project participants and advisors included luminaries from the legal, accounting and investment banking professions, as well as academics in relevant disciplines from Yale University, the Columbia University and Harvard University.
Ms. Marmor graduated, magna cum laude, in 1993 from Northwestern University School of Law, where she served as a Comment Editor of the Journal of International Law and Business and received the Order of the Coif. She received her B.A. in comparative literature, magna cum laude, from Princeton University in 1987.
