Nadia A. Sarkis

Nadia is a tenacious and creative appellate advocate who helps clients keep their wins, reverse their losses, and develop the law.  She brings appeals to life with structured and vivid writing that distills messy facts, untangles convoluted areas of law, and effectively frames the issues in a way that resonates with appellate courts.

Clients and colleagues rely on Nadia to successfully develop a case long before an appeal is filed.  She collaborates on dispositive and other significant pre-trial motions and is instrumental during the post-trial motion phase, when issues are first teed up for appeal.  Her prior years of experience litigating complex cases in the trial courts make her a more effective appellate lawyer and advisor at trial.

With a broad-based appellate practice, Nadia has successfully briefed and argued appeals on a wide range of subject matters, including product liability, employment, punitive damages, civil rights litigation defense, attorneys’ fees, anti-SLAPP motions, and tort matters.  She also frequently appears as amicus curiae in the Ninth Circuit and U.S. Supreme Court, addressing constitutional law and institutionally important legal issues.

Prior to joining Miller Barondess, Nadia was a partner at an appellate boutique.  She previously practiced for several years in the Los Angeles office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, LLP, representing clients in large-scale antitrust and intellectual property litigation matters, and has tried multiple jury cases to verdict.  She also has in-house experience managing commercial litigation, employment, and privacy matters, which informs her collaborative approach with clients and strong communication skills.

Nadia received her Juris Doctor from Northwestern University School of Law and her undergraduate degree from Princeton University.  She started her legal career with two appellate clerkships, for Ferdinand F. Fernandez of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals and Chief Justice Mary Mullarkey of the Colorado Supreme Court.