Sara A. Clark
Sara A. Clark joined the firm in 2010 as an environmental law fellow. She graduated from the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law, where she earned a certificate in environmental law and was elected to the Order of the Coif. Ms. Clark’s practice focuses on representation of both environmental groups and public agencies in CEQA litigation, federal Indian and public land law, and land conservation.
During law school, Ms. Clark served as Editor in Chief of the Ecology Law Quarterly and was a member of the Environmental Law Society’s Environmental Justice Symposium steering committee. She worked as a summer law clerk at SMW and spent a year as a legal intern at the Natural Resources Defense Council.
Prior to attending law school, Ms. Clark worked in land conservation. She was part of the land acquisition team at the Peninsula Open Space Trust, a regional land trust based on the San Francisco peninsula. At the Open Space Institute in New York City, she worked in the conservation research program and published From Diamond International to Plum Creek: The Era of Large Landscape Conservation in the Northern Forest in the Maine Policy Review. She also undertook graduate studies in urban planning at the Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service at New York University. Ms. Clark graduated magna cum laude from Harvard University in 2004 with a degree in environmental science and public policy.
Ms. Clark is a member of the Bars of the State of California, the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, the U.S. District Courts for the Northern and Eastern Districts of California, and the courts of the Colorado River Indian Tribes. Ms. Clark is Chair of the Program Committee for Bay Area Wilderness Training and a volunteer attorney for the S.F. Bar Association’s Volunteer Legal Services Program.