Sarah E. Sholes
Sarah E. Sholes has more than thirty years of experience in trying complex cases to verdict in the defense of general liability and medical malpractice claims. She has won defense verdicts in the vast majority of those cases, including numerous trials in which plaintiffs’ counsel asked the jury to award multi-million dollar damages. A graduate of the State University of New York at Oswego and the State University School of Law at Buffalo, Ms. Sholes’ experience encompasses all aspects of personal injury litigation, including product liability, labor law, motor vehicle, premises liability, property damage, rape, false arrest and slander cases. Insurance coverage, sexual harassment matters, and real estate transactions also lie within the realm of her experience. In addition, Ms. Sholes has successfully represented physicians, surgeons, hospitals and nursing homes in administrative hearings and a large variety of professional malpractice claims in state and federal courts. In orchestrating those trials, she has consulted and has called to the witness stand many highly accomplished physicians who are nationally respected in their fields of specialty.
Ms. Sholes, a resident of the Town of Hyde Park, is a member of the Dutchess County Bar Association, the New York State Bar Association, the Mid-Hudson Women’s Bar Association and the Hyde Park Chamber of Commerce. She serves as the corporate secretary on the board of the Anderson Center for Autism. She is admitted to practice in federal courts in the Southern, Eastern and Northern Districts of New York State.
Ms. Sholes’ practice includes:
- Litigation (lawsuits and appeals)
- Medical Malpractice defense (representation of physicians, hospitals, long term care facilities and other healthcare professionals)
- Serious personal injuries, product liability
- Premises liability, labor law, scaffold and ladder claims
- Commercial and insurance litigation, sexual discrimination and harassment
- Defamation claims, representation in matters related to professional licenses
- Department of Health and State Education Department proceedings (administrative law)
- Residential real estate transactions