Kimberly L. Sachs is an associate in Montgomery McCracken’s Litigation Department. She focuses her practice on catastrophic sports injury defense and other complex litigation matters involving commercial disputes, products liability, and intellectual property.
Kim practices in both federal and state court at the trial and appellate levels. She has experience at all stages of litigation, from drafting pleadings and facilitating pre-trial discovery to arguing dispositive motions and drafting appellate briefs. Kim has tried cases at both the state and federal levels and has drafted a petition for certiorari to the United States Supreme Court.
Kim currently serves as a co-editor of Sports Medicine and Law, a quarterly newsletter that is a complete source for news, case summaries, articles, and strategies concerning legal issues arising at the professional, collegiate, high school, and amateur sport levels. She presents and authors articles on legal issues surrounding the proper management of sport-related concussions, sport-related injuries, and other traumatic brain injury matters. Most recently, Kim presented on using expert witnesses to prove or challenge the existence and extent of brain damage in traumatic brain injury cases at a continuing legal education webinar.
Prior to joining Montgomery McCracken, Kim was a Judicial Extern for the Honorable Juan R. Sanchez in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, a Judicial Extern for the Honorable Marjorie O. Rendell in the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, and a Legal Extern in the Villanova University Office of the Vice President and General Counsel. While in law school, Kim served as a managing editor for the Villanova Law Review.
Kim received a J.D. degree, magna cum laude, from Villanova University Charles Widger School of Law where she was elected to the Order of the Coif and served as the Managing Editor of Research & Writing of the Villanova Law Review. She received a B.A. degree, with distinction, from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
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