Sabrina Strong

Partner

Sabrina Strong is a partner in O’Melveny’s Los Angeles office and a member of the Class Actions, Mass Torts, and Aggregated Litigation and General Trial and Litigation Practices. She has worked on numerous high-profile, multi-plaintiff cases for public and private sector clients. She regularly handles complex business litigation, including class and mass tort actions involving product liability claims, in both federal and state court.

In addition to serving her clients, Sabrina is active within the O’Melveny community. She has served on numerous office and Firm-wide committees, including the Los Angeles Employment Committee and the Los Angeles Business Summit. She also served as co-chair of the Firm’s Associate and Counsel Advisory Committee. This year, Sabrina was recognized by the Firm’s Los Angeles Pro Bono Committee for her superior pro bono commitment.

Sabrina has also been recognized as a Southern California “Rising Star” in a survey conducted by Law & Politics Media Inc. and published in Los Angeles Magazine and the Southern California edition of Super Lawyers (2004, 2005, 2006, 2008).

Illustrative Professional Experience

• Developing and implementing—in coordination with her client and other national counsel—the core legal strategies for the defense and direction of a major multi-district product liability litigation, including numerous state courts actions across the country
• Contributes to key victories in plaintiff-friendly jurisdictions for her clients—including, for example, a case tried in Madison County, Illinois, which is considered one of the most plaintiff-friendly counties in the U.S.
• Defending major U.S. companies in various class action consumer fraud and unfair competition law cases
• Defending a petroleum company against a multi-million-dollar claim by municipalities resulting from an oil spill (including significant involvement in a four-week jury trial in Anchorage leading to a defense verdict)
• Coordinating the defense of a well-publicized class action brought against a large municipality premised upon Section 1983 (free speech and due process) and employment discrimination and retaliation claims
• Defending a large public entity against constitutional claims relating to the appropriate system of oversight and management for public education

Professional Activities

Law Clerk, Honorable William J. Rea, U.S. District Court, Central District of California
Admitted to Practice, U.S. District Court, Central District of California, U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit
Speaker, "Nuts & Bolts: Basic Litigation Skills-Essential Tools for Lawyers," Sponsored by the Los Angeles County Bar Association (2003-07); Continuing legal education courses on discovery, product liability, and risk management issues
Co-Author, "Drug Manufacturers' Interactions with the FDA About Drug-Label Content Are Entitled to Protection Under the Noerr-Pennington Doctrine," Andrews Drug Recall Litigation Reporter (co-authored with Rich Goetz) (2008); Review of Unfair Competition Law for the 2003 California Litigation Review (published by the Litigation Section of the State Bar of California)
Co-Chair, Emerging Issues Subcommittee for the ABA’s Class Actions and Derivative Suits Committee
Adjunct Professor, University of California at Los Angeles School of Law, Ninth Circuit Appellate Practice Clinic
Member, American Bar Association; Los Angeles County Bar Association