Sarah Jenkins

Sarah has litigated trust, probate, and fiduciary disputes in state, federal, and appellate courts across the country. She regularly advises and represents corporate fiduciaries and charitable nonprofits in:

• Asset protection litigation.
• Will and trust contests, modifications, and construction/reformation actions.
• Breach of fiduciary duty and fiduciary removal actions.
• Business and asset valuation disputes.
• Contests of inter vivos transfers.
• Accounting contests.
• Charitable trusts and foundation disputes.
• Power-of-attorney disputes and guardianships.

Sarah’s business litigation experience includes antitrust and real estate disputes as well as cases involving shareholder disputes, breach of licensing/contract, fraudulent inducement, insurance coverage, and other business matters.

She also has extensive experience representing clients in the insurance industry and she understands the business issues at stake for insurers. Sarah represents insurance companies in matters involving coverage disputes, interpleaders, negligent underwriting and privacy claims, enforcement actions, and multidistrict litigation in antitrust cases. She has also defended companies that provide health, life, home, auto, and business insurance products in state, federal, and appellate courts.

Sarah serves on the Steering Committee for the Guardianship and Technology project, which was established by the National Center for State Courts (NCSC) along with National Guardianship Network Partners including the American Bar Association Commission on Law and Aging (ABA-COLA) and the National Disability Rights Network (NDRN). The goal is to establish business and technical requirements to increase the ability of courts to monitor guardianships and conservatorships.

An integral part of Sarah’s career has been providing pro bono legal services. She is committed to reducing the abuses that unfortunately occur under guardianships and has provided hundreds of hours for individuals under guardianships. Sarah worked on a subcommittee of the Indiana State Bar Association’s (ISBA) Probate Review Committee to draft legislation (now codified in Indiana Code Section 29-3-9-6) requiring guardians to provide notices of accountings to an incapacitated person’s close family members. As a member of the ISBA’s Guardianship Registry Committee, she collaborated on developing the online registry of Indiana guardians, which provides for more oversight of guardians.

Sarah has also represented individuals with mental health disabilities to protect constitutional due process rights, including achieving a successful ruling from the Indiana Court of Appeals that a court-appointed guardian is required to give an individual notice and opportunity to be heard before depriving him of property.

Sarah graduated from Indiana University – Bloomington and received her law degree from the Indiana University Maurer School of Law, magna cum laude. She was a law clerk for the Hon. Paul D. Mathias, Indiana Court of Appeals, from 2006-2007.