Sarah Preis is an associate in the law firm of McDermott Will & Emery LLP and is based in the Firm’s Washington, D.C., office. She focuses her practice on white-collar and securities defense litigation.
Following law school, Sarah was a law clerk for the Honorable Jennifer B. Coffman, U.S. District Judge for the Eastern and Western Districts of Kentucky, and volunteered in the offices of the Honorable Ann O’Regan Keary and the Honorable Lynn Leibovitz, Superior Court of the District of Columbia, Criminal Division.
Sarah received her J.D. from the University of Chicago Law School. While in law school, she was the Executive Editor of The Legal Forum, co-founder and executive board member of the Criminal Law Society, and President of her law school's American Constitution Society chapter. During her third year of law school, she represented indigent clients in federal court through the Federal Criminal Justice Project Clinic. She also interned at the U.S. Department of Justice in the Federal Programs Branch of the Civil Division and served as a criminal sentencing extern for the Honorable Joan B. Gottschall, U.S. District Judge for the Northern District of Illinois.
Before law school, Sarah worked as Legislative Clerk for the Senate Judiciary Committee for United States Senator Russell D. Feingold.
Sarah is admitted to practice in Maryland and the District of Columbia.