Sarah Clarke

Principal

Sarah Clarke has supported and advocated for children and families throughout her career. Her practice is focused primarily in the area of child protection. Sarah has significant experience working with and for First Nations and Indigenous communities in the context of child welfare, supporting Band Representatives throughout the province of Ontario.

Sarah has also supported and worked with First Nation communities across the country in high conflict child protection matters. In addition to her law degree, Sarah holds a Master of Social Work.

Sarah was called to the bar in 2009. She commenced her practice in commercial litigation at a multinational Bay Street firm, where she first began representing the First Nations Child and Family Caring Society. Sarah’s work was recognized by L’expert Magazine with a Platinum Zenith Award and by Canadian Lawyer Magazine as one of the Top 25 Most Influential Lawyers in Canada (2016). Sarah also received the Ontario Bar Association President’s Award as a member of the legal team with the First Nations Child and Family Caring Society (2017).

Sarah has acted in diverse and complex human rights, child protection and Indigenous law matters, and has appeared before the Child and Family Services Review Board, the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal, all levels of court in Ontario, the Federal Court and Federal Court of Appeal, and the Supreme Court of Canada. Sarah has spoken at numerous conferences across Canada regarding Indigenous child welfare and the child welfare system. She is also an adjunct academic staff at Queen’s Faculty of Law where she teaches Indigenous Child Welfare.