Merson Law Associate: Sarah Cantos

Experience:

While in law school, Ms. Cantos was a member of the Moot Court Honors Society
where she both competed as a student advocate and coached other student advocate.
Ms. Cantos served the Kings County Small Claims Court as a mediator while enrolled in the school’s Medication Clinic. Ms. Cantos also participated in the Children’s Law Center Clinic where she assisted with litigation of child custody and visitation cases as an advocate for the child.

Ms. Cantos has used this experience to recover millions of dollars in settlements and verdicts for her clients.

Demonstrative Cases:

• $28,500,000 medical malpractice jury verdict for a former New York Giants
  Football Player
• Seized the property of a perpetrator who assaulted her client in lieu of a
  monetary settlement
• Had the City of New York’s Answer Stricken by the New York State Supreme
  Court Appellate Division- Second Department
• Six figure verdict as lead attorney in the first CVA case tried in the New York
  State Supreme Court, County of Suffolk
• Six figure verdict as lead attorney against the City of New York
• Representing nearly 100 survivors of childhood sexual abuse against Boy Scouts
  of America
• Representing more than 50 survivors of childhood sexual abuse against the Archdiocese of New York, Diocese of Syracuse, Diocese of Rockville Center, Diocese of Buffalo, Diocese of Rochester and Diocese of Ogdensburg

Recognition:

• Super Lawyers, Rising Star, 2022-2024
• The National Trial Lawyers- Civil Plaintiff- Top 40 Under 40, 2024
• National Academy of Personal Injury Attorneys- Top 10 Under 40, 2024

Bar Admissions:

• New York State
• United States District Court for the Southern District of New York
• United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York
• United States District Court for the Northern District of New York

Education:

• B.S. in Political Science – State University of New York College at Plattsburgh, 2016
• Juris Doctorate – Brooklyn Law School, 2019

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