Sharon defends clients in high-exposure, complex litigation, often involving complex quantitative analysis. She focuses her representation on financial services clients.
Overview
Sharon also handles class action litigation and appellate litigation for a range of clients. She uses her quantitative analysis skills to assess damages theories (e.g. how much of the plaintiff’s damage is due to the defendant’s allegedly bad acts and how much is due to an economic down turn?), quantitative methods of proof, the quantitative impact of various arguments, potential exposure, and the appropriate legal strategy for each case.
Sharon also helps clients navigate situations in which they are unable to perform their contracts due to unforeseeable events like epidemics and extreme weather conditions (force majeure events).
Sharon also represents medical care providers in overpayment and False Claims Act disputes.
Experience
Sharon has represented over a dozen banks and mortgage lenders in multimillion dollar suits brought by large private purchasers of mortgage loans, seeking indemnification in connection with settlements they made with RMBS Trustees and government-sponsored entities.
Sharon has advised multiple clients on how to navigate force majeure events.
Sharon represents a property and casualty insurer in a class action involving allegations of improper labor depreciation.
Sharon represents a distributor in multiple contract disputes.
Sharon represented a defendant in a mortgage loan repurchase action.
She represented an egg producer in an antitrust class action.
Sharon represented an insurer in a consumer fraud putative class action. Sharon and her team obtained Rule 12 dismissal of all claims in a case of first impression in Minnesota.
She has worked on numerous appeals. Sharon was a judicial clerk on the Minnesota Court of Appeals; she was an adjunct professor of appellate advocacy at St. Thomas Law School; and she coordinates Stinson-Minneapolis's pro bono appeals program.
Sharon serves on the board of MN Adopt.
News & Insights
News
Speaking Engagements
Publications
"Reducing Your Exposure in the Next Economic Downturn," The Missouri Banker, September 2019
Recognitions
Recognitions
Recognized as a Minnesota Super Lawyers® Rising Star, 2018 - 2019
Professional & Civic Activities
Professional & Civic Activities
Minnesota State Bar Association
Hennepin County Bar Association
MN Adopt, Board Member
Practices & Industries
Admissions
- Minnesota
- U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Education
University of Minnesota Law School, J.D., magna cum laude
- Minnesota Law Review, Editor
- Order of the Coif
St. Olaf College, B.A., Economics and Political Science, summa cum laude
- Phi Beta Kappa
