Sarah Jorgensen is one of the Firm’s founding partners and Managing Partner of the Firm’s Atlanta office. With more than 30 years of experience, Sarah is an accomplished trial lawyer focusing on complex commercial litigation. She brings her analytical skills to bear on a range of both trial and appellate matters in commercial, complex tort, antitrust, intellectual property, and energy litigation.

Sarah plays a leading role in the Firm’s energy practice, and works with companies and associations on issues relating to the natural gas industry, indoor air quality, and clean energy. Earning the title of Attorney of the Year 2024 at the Southeastern Legal Awards by Law.com and the Daily Report, she has also been recognized among the Lawdragon 500 Leading Litigators in America, Profiles in Leadership Journal’s 2025 Women Worth Watching® in Leadership and Thomson Reuters Stand-Out Lawyers. Clients praise her work as “very nimble, responsive, and insightful.”

Sarah served as a clerk for the U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist and for the Honorable Lawrence H. Silberman of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. She also served as a trial lawyer with the Antitrust Division of the Department of Justice. She began her career at Kellogg, Huber, Hansen, Todd & Evans in Washington, D.C., and at Textron, Inc. as in-house legal counsel. 

Representative Matters

• California Restaurant Association (CRA). Secured a precedent-setting victory on behalf of the CRA in the “gas ban on stoves” case against the City of Berkeley. The Ninth Circuit reversed the District Court’s ruling and held that Berkeley’s ban on natural gas hookups is preempted by federal law and therefore invalid. The win earned the RJLF team The AmLaw Litigation Daily’s “Litigator of the Week” runners-up recognition, and the case garnered extensive national attention from major news outlets, including The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Bloomberg, and Reuters, among others.

• Arconic. Represented Arconic in trade secret and antitrust case in the Western District of Pennsylvania. The case involved claims that Novelis misappropriated Arconic’s trade secrets in a pretreatment process for aluminum sheet used in Ford’s popular F-150 pickup truck by publishing them in a patent application. Novelis asserted counterclaims alleging breach of contract and antitrust law claims.

• Arconic. Represented Arconic in multi-hundred-million-dollar claim against Universal Alloy Corporation for the theft of trade secrets used for the manufacture of critical aircraft wing components for Boeing. The representation included defense of antitrust counterclaims.

• Southern California Gas Company. Represent SoCalGas in connection with indoor air quality, clean energy, and issues relating to state and local government actions concerning natural gas.

• Alcoa. Represented Alcoa Inc. in defense of a case brought by the State of North Carolina concerning ownership rights to North Carolina’s second-largest river system and the right to control four hydroelectric dams on the Yadkin River. The State alleged that it owned these dams under a constitutional navigability doctrine. Alcoa prevailed at trial and the State’s allegations of ownership were extinguished.

Rankings & PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

• Lawdragon 500 Leading Litigators in America

• Law.com and Daily Report, 2024 Attorney of the Year Winner, Southeastern Legal Awards

• Profiles in Leadership Journal, 2025 Women Worth Watching in Leadership award

• Thomson Reuters Stand-Out Lawyers

• Law360 Georgia Editorial Advisory Board Member (2023 and 2024)

Media & Publications

• “Trying a New Model,” Swarthmore College Bulletin (Winter 2026)

• “Reichman Jorgensen Lehman & Feldberg Leads Coalition Challenging Department of Energy’s Gas Appliance Rule,” PR Newswire (January 2025)

• “Reichman Jorgensen Lehman & Feldberg Leads Suit Against South Coast Air Quality Management District’s Effective Ban on Certain Gas Appliances,” PR Newswire (December 2024)

• “See Who Won Daily Report’s 2024 Southeastern Legal Awards,” Daily Report / Law.com (June 20, 2024)

• “Sarah Jorgensen Wins Attorney of the Year at the Southeastern Legal Awards 2024,” PR Newswire (June 2024)

• “2024 Southeastern Legal Awards Honorees Announced,” Daily Report / Law.com (April 18, 2024)

• “Berkeley Nixes Natural Gas Ban, But Shift to Electric Rolls On,” Law360 (April 2, 2024)

• “Law360 Announces the Members of Its 2024 Editorial Boards,” Law360 (March 20, 2024)

• “Berkeley can’t enforce natural gas ban, federal court rules again,” Berkeleyside (January 3, 2024)

• “9th Circ. Won’t Rethink Reversal of Berkeley Gas Hookup Ban,” Law360 (January 2, 2024)

• “Ninth Circuit Upholds RJLF’s Victory: Denies Rehearing Petition in CRA’s Suit Against Berkeley’s Gas Ban,” PR Newswire (January 2, 2024)

• “New York State Hit With Suit Over Gas Appliance Ban,” Law360 (October 12, 2023)

• “Coalition of Businesses and Workers Sues New York State Over Gas Ban,” PR Newswire (October 2023)

• “Law360’s 2023 Georgia Editorial Advisory Board,” Law360 (May 6, 2023)

• “Another Heaping Helping of Litigator of The Week Runners-Up,” The AmLaw Litigation Daily (April 21, 2023)

• “What 9th Circuit ruling means for building gas bans,” E&E News (April 18, 2023)

• “Court Dismisses Ban on Natural Gas Hookups in Berkeley, California,” Oilprice (April 18, 2023)

• “Ninth Circuit Overturns Berkeley’s Natural Gas Ban,” PR Newswire (April 17, 2023)

• “Federal court slows a California ban on natural gas appliances,” Los Angeles Times (April 17, 2023)

• “Court Backs California Restaurants in Suit Against Berkeley’s Ban on New Natural Gas Hookups,” Reuters (April 17, 2023)

• “Federal appeals court strikes down Democratic city’s natural gas ban backed by Biden admin,” Fox News (April 17, 2023)

• “Berkeley natural gas ban tossed by Ninth Circuit,” Courthouse News Service (April 17, 2023)

• “Court overturns Berkeley’s first-in-the-U.S. ban on natural gas,” Seeking Alpha (April 17, 2023)

• “Ninth Circuit Tosses Berkeley, CA’s Natural Gas Ban,” Natural Gas Intelligence (April 17, 2023)

• “Berkeley Ban on Natural Gas Hookups Tossed by Ninth Circuit,” Bloomberg Law (April 17, 2023)

• “Court throws out Berkeley, California’s ban on natural gas,” Associated Press (April 17, 2023)

• “9th Circuit busts Berkeley’s natural gas ban,” E&E News (April 17, 2023)

• “Gas Stoves Triumph Over Berkeley,” Wall Street Journal (April 17, 2023)

• “U.S. Appeals Court Strikes Down Berkeley, Calif., Natural-Gas Ban,” Wall Street Journal (April 17, 2023)

• “9th Circ. Reverses Berkeley’s Natural Gas Installation Ban,” Law360 (April 17, 2023)

• “Court strikes down Berkeley’s first-in-the-nation ban on natural gas in new construction,” San Francisco Chronicle (April 17, 2023)

• “Appeals court tosses California town’s ban on natural gas connections,” Houston Chronicle (April 17, 2023)

• “The Breakout Success of Reichman Jorgensen, The Lawyers’ Law Firm,” Lawdragon (October 27, 2022)

• “Berkeley Defends Natural Gas Ban to 9th Circuit,” Law360 (February 3, 2022)

• “Restaurant group sues California city over ban on new natural gas connections,” Reuters (November 21, 2019)

• “New Trial Boutique Eschews Billable Hours, Partner Track,” Law360 (October 15, 2018)