
Sara Worth is a litigation associate in the Los Angeles office of Munger, Tolles & Olson.
She began her legal career as a summer associate at MTO and spent two years at the firm before departing for her clerkship on the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California. Prior to rejoining the firm, she served as an election safeguarding attorney for the ACLU Voting Rights Project, litigating over a dozen cases in state trial and supreme courts during the 2024 election cycle.
Sara earned her J.D. from Yale Law School, where she served as chief speechwriter to Dean Heather Gerken and participated in the San Francisco Affirmative Litigation Project and Media Freedom and Information Access Clinic. Sara was born and raised in Los Angeles and earned her B.A., summa cum laude, in English literature and political science from the University of Southern California, where she was a Trustee Scholar.
Before attending law school, Sara was a content and messaging strategist at a creative agency focused on social impact campaigns.
Experience
- FIGS, Inc., and its co-founders in obtaining a full and complete defense verdict for the medical apparel company against $100 million claims for false advertising, intentional interference with prospective economic relations and unfair competition brought by industry incumbent Careismatic Brands (formerly Strategic Partners, Inc.).
- DoubleLine Capital and its CEO, Jeffrey Gundlach, in achieving a complete defense award in arbitration brought by former partners seeking hundreds of millions of dollars, as well as victory on counter-claims that significantly reduced the value of the partners’ outstanding equity after a two-phase, multi-week hearing.
- The Estate of Etsuko Toguri in obtaining a $30 million judgment in an arbitration arising from a real estate fraud scheme.
- The American Bar Association and the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers in Supreme Court amicus briefs.
- A public university in defending against a professor’s First Amendment retaliation challenge, resulting in a favorable settlement.
- A major film studio in a sensitive workplace investigation.
Education
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Yale Law School (J.D., 2021)
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University of Southern California (B.A., summa cum laude, 2015) Trustee Scholar
Clerkships
- Judge James Donato, U.S. District Court, Northern District of California, 2023-2024
Bar Admissions
- California
Experience
- FIGS, Inc., and its co-founders in obtaining a full and complete defense verdict for the medical apparel company against $100 million claims for false advertising, intentional interference with prospective economic relations and unfair competition brought by industry incumbent Careismatic Brands (formerly Strategic Partners, Inc.).
- DoubleLine Capital and its CEO, Jeffrey Gundlach, in achieving a complete defense award in arbitration brought by former partners seeking hundreds of millions of dollars, as well as victory on counter-claims that significantly reduced the value of the partners’ outstanding equity after a two-phase, multi-week hearing.
- The Estate of Etsuko Toguri in obtaining a $30 million judgment in an arbitration arising from a real estate fraud scheme.
- The American Bar Association and the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers in Supreme Court amicus briefs.
- A public university in defending against a professor’s First Amendment retaliation challenge, resulting in a favorable settlement.
- A major film studio in a sensitive workplace investigation.
Practice Areas
Education
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Yale Law School (J.D., 2021)
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University of Southern California (B.A., summa cum laude, 2015) Trustee Scholar
Clerkships
- Judge James Donato, U.S. District Court, Northern District of California, 2023-2024
Bar Admissions
- California