Sarah Bauman represents and counsels employers across a wide range of industries on federal and state employment laws. She has experience defending complex class actions, EEOC-representative proceedings, collective actions, and single-plaintiff actions involving discrimination, harassment, restrictive covenants, and equal pay claims. Sarah counsels employers on creating compliant and consistent employment policies and practices applicable to employees nationwide. She also handles high-profile investigations (both internal and external) and arbitration proceedings involving EEO-related allegations, workplace and sexual misconduct, and alleged wage and hour violations.
Sarah represents employers in a broad array of employment-related lawsuits arising under numerous federal, state, and local laws, such as Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Americans with Disabilities Act, the Equal Pay Act, Age Discrimination in Employment Act, the Family Medical Leave Act, the Illinois Workplace Transparency Act, as well as restrictive covenant and privacy laws. Sarah also counsels clients on litigation strategy and human resource compliance relative to these laws and others.
Sarah has experience counseling and defending employers in discrimination and equal employment opportunity matters and is a frequent author and speaker on EEO laws and related policy implications. She represents employers in investigations involving discrimination and harassment claims before the US Department of Justice, the EEOC, and state and local agencies. Sarah also has experience litigating against the EEOC in representative proceedings and negotiating consent decrees. She assists employers in navigating affirmative action and compliant DEI policies and practices following the US Supreme Court’s decision in Students for Fair Admissions, Inc. v. President and Fellows of Harvard College.
Sarah joined Morgan Lewis in 2023 after practicing at another high-profile labor and employment law firm in Chicago. She also previously served as a federal judicial clerk at the US District Court for the Southern District of West Virginia, where more than 70% of her case docket involved labor, employment, and benefits (including ERISA) lawsuits.