Sarah Louise Scott
In her complex litigation practice, Sarah helps clients by deposing bellwether candidates and related fact witnesses in state multi-district litigation (MDL) and providing scientific and clinical trial knowledge to inform pretrial and trial strategies in vaccine litigation.
Sarah has been a member of several community boards throughout Baltimore and enjoys mentoring associates, both formally and informally. She has also successfully guided a political asylee through the asylum process. Prior to joining Venable, Sarah was an associate at a boutique litigation firm, where she focused on medical malpractice defense, product liability defense—including consumer products, heavy machinery, and pharmaceuticals and medical devices—and insurance litigation. During this time, she deposed both fact witnesses and experts and argued motions, including a successful opposition to a motion to compel discovery in an inverse condemnation case.
Before law school, Sarah taught and wrote about philosophy, particularly the philosophy of science, at several academic institutions. In this capacity, she explained the concepts behind, and significance of, certain scientific theories and practices.
Related Practices
Experience
Representative Matters
- Developing experts as part of an inter-firm expert team in a nationwide litigation involving an asthma and allergy medication
- Deposing plaintiffs and experts, and defending experts’ depositions, in a nationwide litigation involving proton pump inhibitors
- Developing experts as part of a team in a nationwide litigation involving an adult vaccine, including identifying experts and all aspects of litigation, in neurology, virology, immunology, radiology, ophthalmology, and other medical and scientific specialties, and drafting pretrial and dispositive motions
- Assisting with management, company story development, and discovery on a team in an MDL and two consolidated state court litigations involving an adult vaccine
- Assisting with experts in antitrust and whistleblower litigation related to a childhood vaccine
Insights
Credentials
Education
- J.D. Georgetown University Law Center 2014
- Articles editor, Georgetown Journal of Legal Ethics
- Law Fellow
- Ph.D. Philosophy University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 2007
- M.A. Philosophy University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 2003
- B.A. St. John's College 2001
Bar Admissions
- District of Columbia
- Maryland
Court Admissions
- District of Columbia Court of Appeals
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
- U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland
- Maryland Court of Appeals
Recognition
- Super Lawyers, Rising Star, Maryland, 2018, 2021 – 2023
- The Best Lawyers in America, Ones to Watch, 2021 – 2025