Straightforward product liability counsel informed by litigation experience

Sara Scullen is an experienced litigator who provides guidance on product liability, premise liability and personal injury matters to a wide range of product manufacturers, including those who manufacture large industrial equipment, medical devices, alcohol beverages and motor vehicles. Her straightforward and cost-effective counsel and defense strategies help clients facing product defense and negligence claims, product recalls, lemon laws and toxic exposure claims. She also represents clients in complex litigation matters, particularly in the construction industry.

Previously, Sara spent more than 20 years in public service, as both an assistant district attorney in the Milwaukee County District Attorney’s Office and a court commissioner in Waukesha County Circuit Court. In these roles, she gained invaluable experience both trying and presiding over cases, as well as advising and training members of the judiciary.

Sara is deeply committed to giving back to the community, including through pro bono work. She volunteers her time helping a domestic abuse hotline, pursuing injunctions for victims of violence and working to gain special immigration status for children in Wisconsin.

Bar Admissions

• Wisconsin

Education

• Santa Clara University (B.S., with honors, 1994)
  • Political Science

• University of Minnesota Law School (J.D., cum laude, 1997)

• "A Child Welfare Practitioner’s - Guide for Meeting the WICWA Active Efforts Requirement"
• "A Day For Meta House"
• "A Day For Meta House"
• "Access to Children’s Court Records"
• "Access to Children’s Court Records"
• "Chapter 822 – Uniform Child Custody Jurisdiction Act"
• "Child Safety - A Guide for Prosecutors"
• "Child Safety Decision Making Model and Juvenile Law"
• "Child Safety Decision Making Model for Judges"
• "Child Safety Decision Making Model"
• "Child Safety Re-Boot"
• "Child Safety Re-Boot"
• "Child Safety Re-Boot"
• "Child Welfare and the Courts Legislative Update"
• "District 10 Judicial Training"
• "Ethics of Children's Court Practice: Ethics Panel Discussion with Judges and Commissioners"
• "Guardianship: The-Not-As-Permanent Permanency Option"
• "Guardianships and Child Care Power of Attorneys"
• "Milwaukee County Joint Protocol on Child Abuse and Neglect"
• "Milwaukee County Joint Protocol on Child Abuse and Neglect"
• "Milwaukee County Juvenile Court Judicial Retreat - Child Safety"
• "Permanency Hearings: What to Know and How to Make Them Matter"
• "Speakers from Practice: Alternative Courts and Problem Solving Courts"
• "Temporary Physical Custody Hearing and Child Safety Decision Making"
• "The Confidential Nature of Juvenile Cases and the Prosecutor's Corresponding Ethical Obligations"
• "The Court and Child Welfare: Moving from a Meaningful Connection to Making a Meaningful Change"
• "The Court and Child Welfare: Moving from a Meaningful Connection to Making a Meaningful Change"
• "The Perils of Neonatal Drug Screening"
• "The Role of a Lawyer in Problem Solving Courts"
• "Waukesha County GAL Seminar – Case Law Update"
• "WICWA What?: How and When Wisconsin’s Indian Child Welfare Law Applies to the Prosecution of JIPS, CHIPS and TPR cases"
• "Wisconsin Adoption Law"
• "Wisconsin Prosecutor’s Domestic Abuse Reference Book"
• “Judicial Roundtable - COVID-19 and it's Impact on the Bench”