Kimberly L. Sachs

• New Jersey
• Pennsylvania
• United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
• United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania
• United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania

• Represent Pennsylvania high school in case involving student who allegedly sustained a traumatic brain injury while skiing
• Represent head athletic trainer for Division I football program in case involving death of student-athlete football player who died from heat stroke
• Represent Illinois school district in case involving student who allegedly sustained traumatic brain injury after school activity bus rolled over
• Represent Ohio religious school in case involving student who allegedly sustained a traumatic brain injury after being struck in head with golf club
• Represent private university in New York in case involving student who allegedly sustained traumatic brain injury after being struck in head with magnetic barrier gate arm
• Successfully persuaded the Centre County District Attorney’s office to drop all remaining charges against the client for felony convictions for unlawful use of a computer
• Represented a school in four-week traumatic brain injury trial where she was responsible for working and coordinating with two internationally-renowned medical experts

• Speaker, “Hot Legal Topics for Athletic Trainers – Sports Medicine and the Law,” College Athletic Trainers’ Society Spring Symposium, May 2023
• Panelist, “Is the Team Physician an Endangered Species? An Exploration of the Issues,” American Medical Society for Sports Medicine, April 2022
• Panelist, “Traumatic Brain Injury: Proving or Challenging the Existence and Extent of Brain Damage Using Expert Witnesses,” Strafford Webinar, July 2021
• Guest Lecturer, Organization and Administration of Athletic Training, University of Michigan, November 2020
• Guest Lecturer, Sports Law Society, Villanova School of Law, October 2019

• Co-Author, “Highly Anticipated Concussion Consensus Statement Released,” June 2023
• Co-Author, “Is Youth Football Safe? Recent Study Suggests it Might Not Be as Dangerous as we Once Thought,” Sports Medicine and the Law, Spring 2022
• Co-Author, “Qualified Immunity Shields Public High School Coach and Athletic Trainer from Liability,” Sports Medicine and the Law, Fall/Winter 2021
• Mentioned, “After Career Change, Sachs Finds Rewarding Path as Attorney,” Sports Medicine and the Law, Spring 2021
• Co-Author, “Important New Research Shows Practice – Not Game Play – Increases Exposure to Concussion,” Sports Medicine and the Law, Spring 2021
• Co-Author, “Engendering Debate: The Varying State of Transgender Athlete Participation Policies,” Sports Medicine and the Law, Spring 2021
• Co-Author, “Onyshko Appeal Knocked Out by Pennsylvania Superior Court,” Sports Medicine and the Law, Spring 2021
• Co-Author, “Do You Even Properly Diagnose, Breaux?! Breaux Sues Saints’ Former Team Doctors in Medical Malpractice Lawsuit,” Sports Medicine and the Law, Fall 2020
• Co-Author, “Arrington Settlement Update: Concussion Reporting Process,” Sports Medicine and the Law, Summer 2020
• Co-Author, “Saved By The Bell—Penn State Dodges Further Litigation in Whistleblower Case,” Sports Medicine and the Law, Summer 2020
• Co-Author, “New Bellwether Cases Against NCAA Move Forward in Texas,” Sports Medicine and the Law, Summer 2020
• Co-Author, “The Arrington Settlement and Its Implications: What It Says and What It Doesn’t,” Sports Medicine and the Law, Spring 2020
• Co-Author, “Claims of Constitutional Violations Dismissed in Student Athlete Wrongful Death Case, Giordano v. School Board,” Sports Medicine and the Law, Winter 2020
• Co-Author, “The Cover-Up Is Always Worse Than The Concussion: Central Michigan’s Head Gymnastics Coach Fired for Inducing Athletes to Hide Injuries,” Sports Medicine and the Law, Fall 2019
• Co-Author, “Exercise As Punishment? Drop and Give Me 20… Hundred Thousand Dollars,” Sports Medicine and the Law, Fall 2019
• Co-Author, “Insurance Is Not Killing Football, Other Contact Sports – It’s Making Them Safer,” Sports Medicine and the Law, Fall 2019
• Co-Author, “Potential Expansion of Athletic Programs’ Duty of Care to Student-Athletes and New Limitations to Waivers of Liability: Lessons Learned from Feleccia v. Lackawanna College,” Sports Litigation Alert, October 2019
• Co-Author, “Behind the Lines: Recent Changes to D1 Athletics Programs’ Reporting Structures,” Sports Medicine and the Law, Summer 2019
• Co-Author, “Takeaways from the Onyshko Verdict: Win for NCAA, Loss for Plaintiffs, Draw for Others in Future Head Injury Cases,” Sports Medicine and the Law, Summer 2019
• Co-Author, “Pushing Players Too Far to ‘Do Something’ Will Not ‘Win the Day’ in Court – Takeaways from two UO Suits,” Sports Medicine and the Law, Spring 2019
• Co-Author, “Wani v. George Fox University – Handling Student-Athlete Complaints on the Field and In the Locker Room,” Sports Medicine and the Law, Fall 2019
• Co-Author, “Second Impact Syndrome: Diagnosis versus Myth,” Concussion Litigation Reporter, September 2017

• Selected to the Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch – Commercial Litigation list in 2024. This list is issued by Best Lawyers and a description of the selection methodology can be found here. No aspect of this advertisement has been approved by the Supreme Court of New Jersey or the highest court of any other state.
• Selected to the Pennsylvania Super Lawyers Rising Star list in 2023. The Super Lawyers list is issued by Thomson Reuters and a description of the selection methodology can be found here. No aspect of this advertisement has been approved by the Supreme Court of New Jersey or the highest court of any other state.

Law School

• Villanova University Charles Widger School of Law

Undergraduate School

• University of Wisconsin-Madison