Sarah Swanson is an attorney and Senior Associate at Kaedian LLP. In that capacity, she handles a variety of legal matters related to the labor and employment concerns of businesses and entrepreneurs throughout Southern California.
In addition to labor and employment litigation and business disputes, Ms. Swanson has experience in intellectual property disputes, E&O clearance, and registering and enforcing copyrights and trademarks. Ms. Swanson also has a wide range of experience working on receiverships; anti-SLAPP issues; debtors’ examinations; motions for summary judgment, and opposing such motions; complex discovery disputes; and complex litigation. Not only does she have extensive trial experience, she also has experience working on appellate issues and has appeared in front of various administrative agencies.
Prior to joining Kaedian LLP, Ms. Swanson was an employment litigation attorney that focused on representing employees against private, state and federal entities. In that role, she was involved in cases that arose under the FEHA, the labor code, and whistleblower protection laws. Additionally, Ms. Swanson has worked as in house counsel for start-up companies in the San Francisco area, successfully defending against labor and employment claims. Her experience on both sides of labor & employment matters is an invaluable part of her current practice.
Early in her private practice career, Ms. Swanson worked as an associate at a litigation firm and handled cases throughout California, where she first gained experience as a trial attorney. Within two months of being sworn into the state bar she tried her first case ending in a six-figure jury verdict. Since then, she has successfully tried cases in Los Angeles County, Orange County, Alameda County, and San Francisco County, as well as successfully obtained settlements in labor and employment disputes in the high six figures and seven figures.
Ms. Swanson obtained her J.D. from Southwestern Law School and her Bachelor of Arts from the school of Journalism and Mass Communications at the University of Iowa. While attending law school, she served as Notes and Comments Editor on the Law Review and held teaching and research assistant positions with several of the school’s most prominent professors. Additionally, she was a Biederman Scholar and Deans Fellow.
Ms. Swanson is admitted to practice law in California.
PUBLICATIONS:
Authored: 3D-Printing: A Lesson in History, How to Mold the World of Copyright, 43 Sw. U. L. Rev. 3, 2014.
Contributed to: MICHAEL C. DONALDSON & LISA A. CALIF, CLEARANCE & COPYRIGHT, 4TH EDITION: EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW FOR FILM AND TELEVISION, (4th ed. 2014).