Sarah A. Huck is a shareholder in the firm's Litigation Practice. She focuses her practice on ERISA litigation, working on litigation involving plan sponsors, administrators and trustees of ERISA-covered plans. Sarah also represents actuaries and other financial professionals in actions filed in state and federal courts around the country, in addition to handling other complex civil litigation matters.

She is admitted to practice before all state and federal courts in Wisconsin, the Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, the United States Supreme Court and a variety of state and federal courts across the country.

Representative Matters and Experience

• Representing an actuarial consulting firm in an action brought by a state retirement system alleging malpractice and seeking more than $70 million
• Serving as counsel to an international company that was the victim of a racketeering and fraud scheme, resulting in a favorable jury verdict that is the largest in Wisconsin history  
• Defending successfully a former fiduciary of an ESOP against claim of fiduciary breach
• Serving as counsel in arbitration of a deadlocked vote between trustees of a national Taft-Hartley ERISA plan in which the arbitrator accepted our client's position in all respects
• Representing fiduciaries in investigations by the Department of Labor
• Serving as counsel on a variety of health and welfare and pension benefit claims, most of which have been resolved before or at the summary judgment stage in the plans' favor, avoiding costs of extensive discovery and trial
• Assisting in briefing and preparing the argument of an ERISA subrogation action before the United States Supreme Court (Sereboff v. Mid Atlantic Medical Services, Inc., 2006)
• Working efficiently with a team of attorneys to defend an actuarial action in Alabama state court and multiple class actions consolidated in federal court in Tennessee
• Accepts court-appointed pro bono appeals
• Practiced with Groom Law Group in Washington, D.C., gaining significant experience in a variety of employee benefit matters including retiree health, top hat plans, fiduciary and benefit claims and employer stock options
• Served as executive editor of the Boston College Law Review

Affiliations/Memberships

• State Bar of Wisconsin
• E.D., Wisconsin Bar Association
• American Bar Association (Employee Benefits Section)
• Recipient of Legal Action of Wisconsin Outstanding Special Project Participation Award for work with Marquette University Volunteer Legal Clinic

Education

• J.D., magna cum laude, Boston College Law School; Order of the Coif
• B.A., summa cum laude, Ohio University; Phi Beta Kappa