Sarah Biran is an accomplished employment lawyer with nearly 30 years of experience in private practice and in-house. Sarah advises clients across industries on all aspects of the employment relationship, from recruitment and hiring through performance management, succession planning, reorganizations, and separations. Clients value Sarah’s ability to understand their business and workforce objectives, allowing her to identify issues early and develop efficient, workable solutions.

Sarah’s work regularly includes:

• Drafting and negotiating employment agreements, separation agreements, confidentiality agreements, and contractor agreements
• Developing employee handbooks and workplace policies
• Drafting AI acceptable-use provisions and counseling employers on employee use of AI tools, including the risk of confidential business or personnel information entering public AI platforms
• Advising clients responding to pre-litigation demands and administrative charges
• Conducting internal investigations involving allegations of discrimination, harassment, and other workplace concerns

Prior to joining OGC, Sarah spent more than 15 years practicing employment law at both an employment law boutique and a national labor and employment law firm. In addition to her employment counsel practice, Sarah successfully defended clients in state and federal courts, before the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, and before numerous state agencies, including California’s Department of Civil Rights (formerly Fair Employment and Housing), the Pennsylvania Human Rights Commission, the Illinois Human Rights Commission, and the Connecticut Commission on Human Rights and Opportunities.

She also has significant experience helping organizations resolve disputes at an early stage through mediation and negotiated settlements before they escalate into more costly and disruptive proceedings. Her clients have included publicly traded companies, start-ups, family medical practices, and mid-sized enterprises across a range of industries, including aviation, food service and facilities management, and software and engineering consulting.

Sarah began her legal career at O’Melveny & Myers LLP in Los Angeles and Washington, D.C., following a judicial clerkship with the Honorable David F. Levi of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of California. She later joined the Office of the General Counsel at Yale University, where she advised on a wide range of legal issues, including employment, labor, and research compliance matters.

Sarah is admitted to practice in California, Maryland, Washington, DC, and Connecticut. She received her J.D. in 1996 from Stanford Law School, where she was Managing Editor of the Stanford Law Review.

Beyond work, Sarah and her husband live outside of Annapolis, Maryland, along with two daughters and two cats. Sarah enjoys cooking and reading, can often be found swimming in a pool or open water, and is a huge tennis fan (but hopeless player).