Sarah Eller

Sarah Eller

Associate

Sarah Eller is an associate in the Palo Alto office of Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, where she is a member of the employment and trade secret litigation practices. Her practice includes advising clients on pre-litigation employment law matters, such as employee classification, hiring practices, employment policies, severance, wage and hour laws, and numerous other issues arising under federal, state, and local employment laws. Sarah also represents clients in employment and trade secret litigation matters and corporate transactions.

Experience

Education

J.D., University of California, Irvine School of Law
B.A., Political Science and Africana Studies, Stony Brook UniversityMagna Cum Laude, Phi Beta Kappa

Honors

Pro Bono High Honors, UCI School of Law
Pro Bono Student Leader Award, UCI School of Law
Faculty Award (highest performance in class), Civil Rights Litigation Clinic, UCI School of Law
Dean’s Award (second highest performance in class), Legal Spanish, UCI School of Law

Admissions

Bar of the District of Columbia
State Bar of California
U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit

Credentials

Education

J.D., University of California, Irvine School of Law
B.A., Political Science and Africana Studies, Stony Brook UniversityMagna Cum Laude, Phi Beta Kappa

Honors

Pro Bono High Honors, UCI School of Law
Pro Bono Student Leader Award, UCI School of Law
Faculty Award (highest performance in class), Civil Rights Litigation Clinic, UCI School of Law
Dean’s Award (second highest performance in class), Legal Spanish, UCI School of Law

Admissions

Bar of the District of Columbia
State Bar of California
U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit

Recent Insights

Alerts

On July 17, 2023, the California Supreme Court ruled that where an employee has brought a California Private Attorneys General Act (PAGA) action that is comprised of both individual and non-individual claims, a court order compelling arbitration of the employee’s individual claims “does not strip the [employee] of standing as an aggrieved employee to litigate claims on behalf of other employees under PAGA.” The court’s decision in Adolph v. Uber Technologies,¹ is bad news for California employers. Just last year the U.S. Supreme Court’s (SCOTUS) decision in Viking River Cruises, Inc. v. Moriana,² (“Viking River”) held essentially the opposite—that where an enforceable arbitration agreement exists, a court could compel an employee to litigate individual claims in arbitration and that, when it did so, the employee could no longer pursue any non-individual (“representative”) claims in court and the court should dismiss any such non-individual claims. As a result, California employers can expect to see an increase in costly PAGA actions with little hope that their arbitration agreement will reduce the risk of such claims.

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Client Highlights

On August 24, 2022, Carbon, a leading 3D printing technology company, announced that it has acquired ParaMatters, a software provider for additive manufacturing. The acquisition expands Carbon's current software capabilities to include topology optimization. Carbon's technology platform now broadens to enable product design and development teams to create better products in less time using a wide variety of materials and production systems. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.

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