Sarah Weiner is a litigation associate in the Washington, D.C., office of Munger, Tolles & Olson.
Ms. Weiner has a varied litigation practice involving representations at both the trial and appellate levels of federal and state courts.
Prior to joining the firm, Ms. Weiner served as a law clerk to Justice Sonia Sotomayor of the U.S. Supreme Court, to the Honorable David S. Tatel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, and to the Honorable J. Paul Oetken of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. Before her U.S. Supreme Court clerkship, Ms. Weiner served as an attorney at the U.S. Department of Justice, Civil Division, Appellate Staff.
Ms. Weiner received her J.D. from Yale Law School, where she served as an articles & essays editor for the Yale Law Journal. She graduated from the University of California, Berkeley, with a B.A. in political science.
Experience
- Grayscale Investments, LLC, in securing a significant appellate victory when the D.C. Circuit vacated an SEC order denying Grayscale’s bid to launch the first spot bitcoin exchange-traded product (ETP) in the U.S.
- Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. in a lawsuit brought by Ronald Hilton (of the Hilton hotelier family), arising from William Barron Hilton’s inheritance of millions of shares of Hilton Hotels Corporation stock from deceased hotel magnate Conrad Hilton. Following four rounds of successful demurrers, on May 8, 2023, the court held that the claims are time-barred and dismissed the case in its entirety with prejudice.
- An Am Law 200 firm in securing the Third Circuit’s affirmance of the district court’s ruling that the option had expired for a former client to remove legal releases it had granted the law firm in connection with its fee application to the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware, as well as any follow-on lawsuit for legal malpractice.
Education
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Yale Law School (J.D., 2017)
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University of California, Berkeley (B.A., 2012)
Clerkships
- Justice Sonia Sotomayor, U.S. Supreme Court (2020-2021)
- Judge David S. Tatel, U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit (2018-2019)
- Judge J. Paul Oetken, U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York (2017-2018)
Bar Admissions
- New York
- District of Columbia
Experience
- Grayscale Investments, LLC, in securing a significant appellate victory when the D.C. Circuit vacated an SEC order denying Grayscale’s bid to launch the first spot bitcoin exchange-traded product (ETP) in the U.S.
- Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. in a lawsuit brought by Ronald Hilton (of the Hilton hotelier family), arising from William Barron Hilton’s inheritance of millions of shares of Hilton Hotels Corporation stock from deceased hotel magnate Conrad Hilton. Following four rounds of successful demurrers, on May 8, 2023, the court held that the claims are time-barred and dismissed the case in its entirety with prejudice.
- An Am Law 200 firm in securing the Third Circuit’s affirmance of the district court’s ruling that the option had expired for a former client to remove legal releases it had granted the law firm in connection with its fee application to the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware, as well as any follow-on lawsuit for legal malpractice.
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Practice Areas
Education
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Yale Law School (J.D., 2017)
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University of California, Berkeley (B.A., 2012)
Clerkships
- Justice Sonia Sotomayor, U.S. Supreme Court (2020-2021)
- Judge David S. Tatel, U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit (2018-2019)
- Judge J. Paul Oetken, U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York (2017-2018)
Bar Admissions
- New York
- District of Columbia