Sarah Brenden

Sarah Brenden is a member of Miller Nash’s employment law & labor relations and education teams. She defends and advises private, public, and nonprofit clients in a myriad of employment issues, including wage and overtime disputes, discrimination cases, and day-to-day employment advice and counsel. Sarah has experience managing cases from inception to resolution, resolving cases through settlement, mediation, and arbitration, and supporting trial teams in local, state, and federal court, as well as before a variety of agencies. She also maintains an active immigration practice and drafts and files immigration applications on behalf of clients.

Before joining Miller Nash, Sarah practiced at a Pacific Northwest law firm where she focused on litigation, with particular interest in employment, immigration, personal injury, and commercial disputes.

During law school, Sarah was part of an Immigration Law Clinic where she worked on asylum applications, special immigrant juvenile status applications, and complex reunification cases. In law school, Sarah also worked for Magistrate Judge Bruce J. McGiverin at the U.S. District Court of Puerto Rico, where she wrote opinions and orders on a wide range of issues, including breach of contract, unlawful search and seizure of evidence, and compassionate release through a habeas petition. Before law school, Sarah worked on child sexual assault cases in Guatemala for International Justice Mission. Alongside the Attorney General of Guatemala, she helped facilitate policy reform to end the use of a retraumatizing evidentiary gathering technique.