Overview
Kimberly L. Sachs is a partner in Montgomery McCracken’s Litigation Department and chair of the firm’s Sexual Misconduct Liability Practice. She handles complex litigation involving commercial disputes, employment issues, products liability, and intellectual property, and represents both plaintiffs and defendants in high-stakes trade secret and restrictive covenant cases.
Kim practices in federal and state courts at the trial and appellate levels. She also litigates high-exposure catastrophic injury cases, including sport-related concussion and traumatic brain injury matters at the professional, collegiate, high school, and amateur levels.
In Depth
Kimberly L. Sachs is a partner in Montgomery McCracken’s Litigation Department and serves as chair of the firm's Sexual Misconduct Liability Practice. She focuses her practice on complex litigation matters involving commercial disputes, employment-related issues, products liability, and intellectual property. Additionally, Kim represents both plaintiffs and defendants in high-stakes trade secret misappropriation and restrictive covenant cases.
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.
In addition, Kim litigates high-exposure catastrophic injury cases and presents and authors articles on legal issues surrounding the proper management of sport-related concussions, sport-related injuries, and other traumatic brain injury matters. She also focuses her practice on legal issues arising at the professional, collegiate, high school, and amateur sport levels.
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.
How Kimberly Helps
- Complex commercial litigation
- Trade secrets and restrictive covenants
- Employment litigation
- Products liability litigation
- Catastrophic and sports injury matters
- Sexual misconduct liability
The Record
Credentials
Admitted to Practice
- 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
Selected Representations
- Represented Pennsylvania high school in case involving student who allegedly sustained a traumatic brain injury while skiing.
- Represented head athletic trainer for Division I football program in case involving death of student-athlete football player who died from heat stroke.
- Represented Illinois school district in case involving student who allegedly sustained traumatic brain injury after school activity bus rolled over.
- Represented Ohio religious school in case involving student who allegedly sustained a traumatic brain injury after being struck in head with golf club.
- Represented 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.
Selected Speaking Engagements
- November 2025 Guest Lecturer “Hot Legal Topics for Athletic Trainers” University of Michigan
- July 2025 Speaker “Legal Updates for Athletic Trainers” ATI Sports Medicine
- May 2025 Speaker “Legal Case Updates for Athletic Trainers” College Athletic Trainers Society Symposium
- March 2025 Speaker “There’s No Place Like Home: Leveraging Forum Selection Clauses to Stay Out of Oz Post-Mallory” ACC Greater Philadelphia’s Contracts & Commercial CLE Institute
- January 2025 Speaker “Preparing for Depositions and Litigation” Bux-Mont HR Association
- December 2024 Guest Lecturer “Special Topics in Sports Medicine” University of Michigan
- May 2023 Speaker “Hot Legal Topics for Athletic Trainers – Sports Medicine and the Law” College Athletic Trainers’ Society Spring Symposium
- April 2022 Panelist “Is the Team Physician an Endangered Species? An Exploration of the Issues” American Medical Society for Sports Medicine
- July 2021 Panelist
- November 2020 Guest Lecturer Organization and Administration of Athletic Training, University of Michigan
- October 2019 Guest Lecturer Sports Law Society, Villanova School of Law
Selected Publications
- August 2026 Co-Author
- June 2023 Co-Author
- Spring 2022 Co-Author “Is Youth Football Safe? Recent Study Suggests it Might Not Be as Dangerous as we Once Thought” Sports Medicine and the Law
- Fall/Winter 2021 Co-Author “Qualified Immunity Shields Public High School Coach and Athletic Trainer from Liability” Sports Medicine and the Law
- Spring 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
- Fall 2020 Co-Author “Do You Even Properly Diagnose, Breaux?! Breaux Sues Saints’ Former Team Doctors in Medical Malpractice Lawsuit” Sports Medicine and the Law
- Summer 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
- Spring 2020 Co-Author “The Arrington Settlement and Its Implications: What It Says and What It Doesn’t” Sports Medicine and the Law
- Winter 2020 Co-Author “Claims of Constitutional Violations Dismissed in Student Athlete Wrongful Death Case, Giordano v. School Board” Sports Medicine and the Law
- Fall 2019 Co-Author
- 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
- October 2019 Co-Author
- Summer 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
- Spring 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
- Fall 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
- September 2017 Co-Author “Second Impact Syndrome: Diagnosis versus Myth” Concussion Litigation Reporter
Honors & Awards
- Selected to the Pennsylvania Super Lawyers Rising Star Business Litigation list in 2023-2026. 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.
- Selected to the Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch® – Commercial Litigation list in 2024-2027. 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.
Education
Law School
- Villanova University Charles Widger School of Law
Undergraduate School
- University of Wisconsin-Madison
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Talk With Kimberly
Philadelphia 215-772-7350 ksachs@mmwr.com