Sarah E. Bouchard

Partner

Sarah E. Bouchard is a partner in Morgan Lewis's Labor and Employment Practice and co-leader of the Sarbanes-Oxley subpractice. Ms. Bouchard focuses her practice on single-plaintiff, multi-plaintiff, and complex employment litigation; and she has led the defense of employment-related actions in various federal and state tribunals. She has handled Sarbanes-Oxley-related litigation at all levels of the administrative and federal process, and she has spoken extensively on Sarbanes-Oxley issues. Ms. Bouchard has led the defense of class and collective actions involving wage and hour and discrimination issues. She advises clients with respect to compliance with the FLSA and state wage and hour laws, and she has conducted numerous comprehensive internal audits and investigations.

Ms. Bouchard also advises employers and conducts training on many areas of labor and employment law, including sexual harassment; employee leave under the ADA, FMLA, and state worker's compensation acts; and litigation avoidance.

Ms. Bouchard's publications on labor and employment law include articles in the Villanova Law Review and the Texas Review of Litigation. Most recently, she authored a chapter on "Establishing Best Practices" in Inside the Minds: Labor and Employment Litigation Strategies: Leading Lawyers on Determining Defense and Negotiation Strategies, Evaluating Financial Repercussions, and Interpreting Federal and State Laws (Aspatore Books, 2007).

Ms. Bouchard serves as adjunct faculty for Villanova University's Human Resource Development Graduate Program.

Ms. Bouchard earned her J.D. from Villanova University School of Law in 1995. She received her B.A., Phi Beta Kappa, from Pennsylvania State University in 1992.

Ms. Bouchard is admitted to practice in Pennsylvania and New Jersey and before the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Michigan, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit.