Sarah C. Thompson practices in the areas of environmental law, products liability, and toxic and mass torts. She has extensive experience representing clients on environmental matters, including wetlands use and permitting issues, as well as significant experience defending energy companies in workplace exposure litigation.
- Smart Growth Fixes for Climate Adaptation and Resilience: Changing Land Use and Building Codes to Prepare for Climate Change (US EPA, Office of Policy, Jan. 2017).
- The BP Gulf Oil Spill: What We Have Learned About Civil Liability, and Shared Responsibility– 15 LOY. MAR. L. J. 249 (Spring 2016).
- Authored HB 730, the Farm-to-School bill introduced by Representative Ebony Woodruff and signed into law during the 2015 Louisiana legislative session.
- Authored Secret Science and Agency Decision Making, DRI For the Defense (forthcoming July, 2021)
- Motion Practice: Using Movement, Posture, and other Nonverbal Communication to Sway the Fact-finder, Women’s Energy Network Conference, New Orleans, LA (November, 2019)
Admissions
- Louisiana
- Connecticut
Memberships
- Louisiana Bar Association
- American Bar Association
Education
- J.D., Loyola University New Orleans College of Law, 2016
- Editor, Maritime Law Journal
- Order of Barristers
- Oralist and Coach, PACE Environmental Moot Court competition
- B.A., Political Science, University of California, Irvine, 2011
Honors
- Donald W. Rees National GRSM Oral Advocacy Competition for Associates and Senior Counsel, 3rd Place, 2022