Sarah W. Poston

Practice Areas
Employment
Litigation
 

Phone: (203) 332-5707
Email: sposton@znclaw.com

Ms. Poston concentrates her practice in the area of civil litigation, with an emphasis on employment law and civil rights.  She has litigated many cases in both federal and state courts and in administrative agencies, including the Connecticut Commission on Human Rights and the federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.  She has handled matters arising under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Americans with Disabilities Act, the federal Fair Housing Act, the Connecticut Fair Employment Practices Act, Connecticut housing discrimination statutes, the Connecticut Unfair Trade Practices Act, and the Connecticut Uniform Trade Secrets Act. 

Ms. Poston joined Zeldes, Needle & Cooper after completing federal clerkships in Michigan and Connecticut, and after three years of litigation practice in Cincinnati, Oh.  She became Counsel to the firm in 2007.  She has lectured on employment-related topics and formerly served as co-chair of the Court Liaison Committee for the Young Lawyers Section of the Connecticut Bar Association.

• Brown University (1987)
• New York University School of Law (1993)

• U.S. District Court, Hon. Janet C. Hall (1997-98)
• U.S. District Court, Western District of Michigan, Hon. Douglas W. Hillmann (1993-94)

• Connecticut (1997)
• U.S. District Court, District of Connecticut (1998)
• U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit (2002)
• New York (1995)
• Ohio (1995)
• Pennsylvania (1994)

• Greater Bridgeport Bar Association
• Connecticut Bar Association
• American Bar Association

• Developments in Federal Disability Discrimination Law:  An Emerging Resolution to the Section 504 Damages Issue, Annual Survey of American Law 1992/1993 Vol., Issue 3)

• Comm'n on Human Rights & Opportunities et al. v. Michael Sullivan, et al., 285 Conn. 208 (2008)
• Sam Corcoran v. German Social Society Frohsinn, Inc., 45 Conn.L. Rptr. 1 (Conn. Super. Feb. 21, 2008)
• Tsombanidis v. West Haven Fire Dept., 352 F.3d 565 (2d Cir. 2003)
• Women's Medical Professional Corp. v. Voinovich, 130 F.3d 187 (6^th Cir. 1997)
• Shattuck v. Town of Stratford, 233 F.Supp.2d 301 (D. Conn. 2002)
• Tsombanidis v. City of West Haven, Connecticut, 208 F.Supp.2d 263 (D. Conn. 2002)
• Tsombanidis v. City of West Haven, 180 F.Supp.2d 262 (D. Conn. 2001)
• Tsombanidis v. City of West Haven, Conn., 129 F.Supp.2d 136 (D. Conn. 2001)
• Martinez v. United Technologies Corp., Pratt & Whitney Aircraft Div., 50 F.Supp.2d 130 (D. Conn. 1999)
• Dalton v. Jefferson Smurfit Corp. (U.S.), 979 F. Supp. 1187 (S.D. Ohio 1997)
• Women's Medical Professional Corp. v. Voinovich, 911 F. Supp. 1051 (S.D. Ohio 1995)
• James v. Roberts, 163 F.R.D. 260 (S.D. Ohio 1995)
• Grimm v. Lane, 895 F. Supp. 907 (S.D. Ohio 1995)
• Asylum Hill Problem Solving Revitalization Ass'n v. King, 890 A.2d 522, 277 Conn. 238 (2006)
• Yancey v. Connecticut Life and Cas. Ins. Co., 68 Conn. App. 556, 791 A.2d 719 (2002)