Sarah Clark
Counsel
Sarah concentrates her practice on the defense of physicians, hospitals, and healthcare providers in medical malpractice and general liability matters. She has represented providers in all stages of litigation, from pre-litigation counsel, to taking and defending depositions, to drafting and arguing dispositive motions, and at trial. Sarah takes pride in serving her clients across the state with detail-oriented, research-based advice and counsel, based on her years of experience in healthcare litigation.
Prior to her work defending healthcare providers, Sarah served as a law clerk to the Honorable Joseph M. Hood in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky, where she gained valuable insight into how to communicate legal reasoning and argument effectively and successfully. She earned her law degree from the University of Kentucky College of Law, and was selected by her peers to serve as Editor-in-Chief of the Kentucky Law Journal, the nation’s tenth-oldest continually published law review. Prior to law school, Sarah taught middle school English and Reading in East Feliciana Parish, Louisiana, as a 2009 Corps Member for Teach for America.
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Direct: (502) 855-3830
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Physician and Hospital Medical Malpractice Defense
Healthcare General Liability Defense
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Successfully briefed and argued for summary judgment and dismissal of spousal loss of consortium claim (valued by the opposing party in discovery for one million dollars).
Trial counsel (second chair) for emergency medicine provider facing medical negligence claim. Plaintiff alleged the application of a bandage in the emergency department caused an ischemic injury to her finger. After a one-week trial, the jury returned a defense verdict.
Successfully defended hospital in a Kentucky medical review panel matter, in which the claimant alleged that an injury during her birth occurred and caused panhypopituitarism. Gathered facts, expert opinions, and drafted 136-page submission to the panel, resulting in the panel’s finding of no evidence of a breach in the applicable standard of care by the hospital.
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Board Member, Kentucky Academy of Hospital Attorneys, 2024-2026
Publications Committee Chair, Kentucky Defense Counsel, 2022-2024
Board Member, Summerbridge Louisville, 2019-2022
Leadership Academy Graduate, Louisville Bar Association, 2019
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Presenter, “2025 Kentucky Case Law Update,” Kentucky Academy of Healthcare Attorneys
Annual Convention, May 2025
Co-Presenter, “Preventing and Managing Legal Risk in Medical Care,” Residents as Leaders
Program, University of Louisville School of Medicine, October 2023
Co-Presenter, “Defending Against Manufactured EMR Discovery Disputes,” KHIC Annual Board
Retreat, 2022
Co-Author, “Discovery in Medical Negligence Cases: Requests for Audit Trails and
Metadata,” Common Defense, Spring/Summer 2021
Author, “Expanding the Scope of Who May Petition for Domestic Violence Protective Orders in
Kentucky,” Kentucky Law Journal, Vol. 102, No. 2
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Kentucky State Bar
United States District Court for the Western District of Kentucky
United States District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky
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Juris Doctor, cum laude, University of Kentucky, 2014
Editor-in-Chief, Kentucky Law Journal
Top 20% of graduating class
Bachelor of Arts in Political Science, summa cum laude, Depaul University, 2009
Experience
Federal Judicial Clerk, Honorable Joseph M. Hood, United States District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky, 2014-2015
Middle School English and Reading Teacher, Teach for America, East Feliciana Parish, Louisiana, 2009-2011