Sara Harrington, Adjunct Faculty

Adjunct Professor Sara Harrington is a partner in the technology transactions practice at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati.   She focuses on counseling various companies involved in the development, distribution, licensing, disposition, and acquisition of technology and intellectual property rights for various start-ups and established enterprises. She has represented clients in a wide range of industries, including those involved in search technology, business application software (both open source and private source), e-commerce (business-to-business and business-to-consumer), Web 2.0, entertainment/media industries, database services, consulting, networking devices, semiconductor, telecom, medical device, consumer goods, and audio services.

Professor Harrington has constructed and negotiated a variety of international and domestic agreements, covering such areas as strategic alliances, marketing, development, licensing, advertising, distribution, services, outsourcing, open source, and manufacturing. She also has significant experience advising companies on intellectual property matters in connection with investments, financings, asset purchases and sales, corporate structuring (spin-outs), and mergers and acquisitions.

Prior to joining Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, Professor Harrington was an attorney at Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson in New York City, where she litigated corporate change-of-control and commercial litigation matters for various multinational corporate clients. She has a J.D. from Cornell Law School and received her undergraduate degree from the University of California, San Diego.