Sarah Bradshaw

As a Partner at Sharp Law, Sarah litigates in federal and state courts across the country in many areas of law, including class and mass actions on behalf of survivors, consumers, families who’ve lost loved ones, small businesses and individuals who have been harmed.  

Sarah began her legal career at a small boutique firm in Kansas City where she represented both individual clients and a public school district and became proficient in litigating from both sides of the bar. This balance of practice not only gave her a great insight into both Plaintiff and Defense work but also reaffirmed her desire to represent individuals against entities that have caused irreparable harm. Sarah works tirelessly to achieve resolution for her clients who have suffered tremendous damages, both physical and emotional.

Sarah is focused on implementing institutional change and policy/practice overhaul against the powerful industry Defendants she litigates against. Sarah’s most notable cases include violations of Title IX, monetary recovery against immune and insolvent defendants, civil rights cases, pleading novel interpretations of the Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act (TVPRA), consumer protection and products liability claims, and recovery for clients under state statutory Human Rights Acts. Sarah considers representation of these courageous survivors her greatest professional achievement.

Sarah is also very involved locally and in the Bar. Sarah has worn many hats on the Kansas City Metropolitan Bar Association and currently serves on the committee for the Foundation’s Student Law Academy. She supports several charities around Kansas City, but most near and dear to her heart are the Midwest Innocence Project and Sheffield Place, a local shelter which empowers mothers and their children to heal from trauma by providing them tools for self-sufficiency.

Sarah has been recognized with multiple professional honors, including: Super Lawyers Kansas/Missouri Rising Star since 2019 and Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch in America™ for Mass Torts/Class Actions. In 2022, Sarah received the Up & Coming Award by Missouri Lawyers Media, honoring attorneys under the age of 40 making a positive difference in the practice of law.  

In her spare time, Sarah enjoys KU sports, politics, and exploring Kansas City’s restaurant scene with her husband Andrew and two young kids, Patrick and Sophie. 

Recently

• Sarah and co-counsel have represented more than 100 men who were sexually assaulted while students at Ohio State University. She helped to successfully oppose Ohio State’s petition for certiorari to SCOTUS that sought to undo the victory the team secured from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, a decision that overturned the District Court’s ruling regarding the federal discovery rule’s application to the statute of limitations for Title IX claims. The story of the case and three of Sarah’s clients are prominently featured in the HBO Max Documentary Surviving Ohio State.
• Sarah is litigating a putative class action on behalf of individual consumers and government entities for antitrust, consumer protection and public nuisance, regarding deceitful marketing practices in the Plastics industry by some of the largest corporations in the world.
• Sarah represents multiple bereaved families of individuals who died as a result of consumption of computer duster product, in efforts to hold the manufacturers, distributors and retailers accountable for producing and selling the product absent any safeguards, despite widespread knowledge of the epidemic. 
• Sarah is suing a multilevel marketing company (MLM) on behalf of survivors (including a child) for its benefiter liability under Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act (TVPRA) for turning a blind eye to forced labor and sexual assault by a cult leader in Hutchinson, Kansas who it affiliated with and made money from for three decades. 
• Sarah’s clients have included elite athletes against the U.S. Olympic Committee and its National Governing Bodies (including USA Taekwondo and USA Diving) involving TVPRA federal claims and negligence-based state law claims. These lawsuits have been repeatedly profiled in the New York Times, Washington Post, NPR, and several other national media publications. In their case against USA Taekwondo in federal court in Colorado, Sarah and the team made new law on the statute of limitations and the enterprise theory of liability against institutional defendants who benefit from forced labor and services and ultimately reached a multimillion-dollar settlement on behalf of five courageous female athletes.
• Sarah represents Kevin Braney, a man who was abused as a child by clergy, is now an advocate for survivors and was instrumental in the movement to pass legislation that became the Child Victims Act of New York, to enlarge the statute of limitations and provide a lookback window for survivors to sue for abuse decades prior. Kevin now sits as the Chair of the Unsecured Creditors Committee in the bankruptcy case against the Diocese of Syracuse. In July 2023, the Committee, stewarded by Kevin, and the Diocese reached a historic settlement of $100 million.
• Sarah was appointed by Hon. Joy Flowers Conti in the Western District of Pennsylvania to serve on the Leadership Development Committee, for attorneys new to the practice of Multidistrict Litigation, in In Re SoClean Marketing, Sales Practices & Products Liability Litigation, for her nationwide representation of a putative class of consumers of CPAP cleaning devices.