Sarah Maher

Sarah Maher maintains a broad complex commercial litigation practice with experience in contract litigation, liability management exercises and restructuring disputes, constitutional issues, and employment discrimination.

Sarah was an associate with Holwell Shuster & Goldberg before completing a one-year clerkship with the Honorable James Wesley Hendrix of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas, and returned in 2025.

While in law school, Sarah served as a teaching fellow for a class on First Amendment law and interned at the Solicitor’s Office of the U.S. Department of Labor and at the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.  As a member of Harvard Law School’s Democracy and the Rule of Law Clinic, Sarah supported pending federal litigation regarding state election laws and First Amendment issues.

Notable Cases

• Former Governor Andrew Cuomo in a separation-of-powers challenge to the Commission on Ethics and Lobbying in Government related to the proceeds of a $5 million book deal. Secured rulings at both the New York Supreme Court and the Appellate Division, Third Department declaring the Commission unconstitutional.
• Online media company in putative class action alleging violation of the Video Privacy Protection Act (VPPA).

Writings

• “Music, Mathematics, and the Ancient Legacy: Leonhard Euler’s Tentamen and Classical Reception,” Fordham Undergraduate Research Journal (2019)