Biography
Sarah Starr is an attorney in the Trial & Appellate Litigation section of Jackson Walker’s Dallas office. She was a summer associate at the Firm in 2020 and 2021.
Since joining Jackson Walker, Sarah has gained significant experience handling a variety of media claims, business torts, and complex commercial disputes. As a first-year associate, she co-authored a Fifth Circuit amicus brief challenging a local government’s banning of books from a local library, and later assisted a team in obtaining dismissal of defamation and fraud claims against a publisher and author over their reporting on a controversy surrounding a popular singer’s collection of Alamo-related artifacts. In her second year at the Firm, Sarah and a team of three other Jackson Walker trial lawyers successfully represented their client in a two-week-long federal jury trial in the Northern District of Texas. The trial resulted in a multi-million dollar verdict for their client and the complete dismissal of their opponents’ seven-figure fraud claim.
After earning her undergraduate degree from the University of Texas at Austin in 2018, Sarah returned home to Dallas and graduated from SMU Dedman School of Law within the top ten percent of her class. While in law school, Sarah was an active member of the SMU Law Review Association and served as the Associate Managing Editor for the SMU Annual Texas Survey. She also worked as a constitutional law research assistant to Professor Dale Carpenter and served as a judicial extern to U.S. District Court Judge Sean D. Jordan for the Eastern District of Texas, where she gained a unique perspective on how to best frame an issue and achieve a favorable outcome for her clients.
Education
B.S., The University of Texas at Austin
J.D., magna cum laude, SMU Dedman School of Law
- Order of the Coif
- SMU Law Review Association, SMU Annual Texas Survey, Associate Managing Editor
- SMU Actual Innocence Clinic, Student Attorney
Bar Admissions
Texas
