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Sarah Harrington co-chairs Covington’s Appellate and Supreme Court Litigation Group. She most recently served as the Deputy Assistant Attorney General in charge of the Civil…

Sarah Harrington co-chairs Covington’s Appellate and Supreme Court Litigation Group. She most recently served as the Deputy Assistant Attorney General in charge of the Civil Division’s Appellate Staff and has argued 22 cases before the United States Supreme Court, involving a wide range of civil and criminal issues.

At the Justice Department, Sarah oversaw nationwide appellate litigation and supervised a 60-lawyer team that represents the U.S. and its federal agencies in a wide range of civil appeals. Sarah regularly worked with the U.S. Attorney General, the U.S. Solicitor General, the White House Counsel’s Office, and the General Counsels of various federal agencies. She also previously served as an Assistant to the Solicitor General of the United States, representing the federal government in the United States Supreme Court, and as an attorney in the Appellate Section of the Civil Rights Division, where she argued dozens of cases in the federal courts of appeals.

Sarah has particular experience in matters concerning administrative law, bankruptcy, preemption, federal statutory questions, civil procedure, constitutional law, federal drug approval, foreign sovereign immunity, environmental law, and trademarks. She is also a member of the American Academy of Appellate Lawyers and a Master of the Edward Coke Appellate Inn of Court, the only American Inn of Court devoted entirely to appellate and Supreme Court litigation. Sarah has been an instructor in the Supreme Court Litigation Clinic at Harvard Law School and has extensive experience speaking at conferences and with national news outlets about the Supreme Court.

About

Sarah Harrington co-chairs Covington’s Appellate and Supreme Court Litigation Group. She most recently served as the Deputy Assistant Attorney General in charge of the Civil…

Sarah Harrington co-chairs Covington’s Appellate and Supreme Court Litigation Group. She most recently served as the Deputy Assistant Attorney General in charge of the Civil Division’s Appellate Staff and has argued 22 cases before the United States Supreme Court, involving a wide range of civil and criminal issues.

At the Justice Department, Sarah oversaw nationwide appellate litigation and supervised a 60-lawyer team that represents the U.S. and its federal agencies in a wide range of civil appeals. Sarah regularly worked with the U.S. Attorney General, the U.S. Solicitor General, the White House Counsel’s Office, and the General Counsels of various federal agencies. She also previously served as an Assistant to the Solicitor General of the United States, representing the federal government in the United States Supreme Court, and as an attorney in the Appellate Section of the Civil Rights Division, where she argued dozens of cases in the federal courts of appeals.

Sarah has particular experience in matters concerning administrative law, bankruptcy, preemption, federal statutory questions, civil procedure, constitutional law, federal drug approval, foreign sovereign immunity, environmental law, and trademarks. She is also a member of the American Academy of Appellate Lawyers and a Master of the Edward Coke Appellate Inn of Court, the only American Inn of Court devoted entirely to appellate and Supreme Court litigation. Sarah has been an instructor in the Supreme Court Litigation Clinic at Harvard Law School and has extensive experience speaking at conferences and with national news outlets about the Supreme Court.

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