Sarah L. Carlins is in the Firm’s Business Division and focuses her practice primarily on corporate and health care law. She has considerable experience dealing with federal and state health care regulatory authorities on licensing and reimbursement issues. Ms. Carlins also has assisted with other health care undertakings, including arranging CLIA waivers for clients and helping hospital clients in various states with affiliation, medical staff, tax exemption and public charity, Medicare and risk management matters. Ms. Carlins also assists clients in commercial real estate transactions, representing both borrowers and lenders in asset-based and mortgage-based financings.Ms. Carlins is actively involved in providing pro bono legal services to persons of limited means in the community. She is a board representative to the Pittsburgh Pro Bono Partnership and represents victims of domestic violence in Protection from Abuse cases. In addition, Ms. Carlins received a 2007 Pro Bono Award from the Pennsylvania Bar Association for her role in implementing and managing Allegheny County’s Custody Conciliation Project, which provides free legal representation to indigent parents at the conciliation stage of a custody dispute.
Ms. Carlins has been appointed to a three-year term on the Board of Directors of the Neighborhood Legal Services Association (NLSA) by the Board of Governors of the Allegheny County Bar Association. NLSA provides legal services to the poor in Allegheny, Beaver, Butler and Lawrence counties though such means as a telephone helpline, weekly People's Law Clinics, and most significantly, representation at court proceedings and administrative hearings.
J.D., University of Pittsburgh School of Law, 2003
M.B.A., University of Pittsburgh, Joseph M. Katz Graduate School of Business, 1999
M.P.I.A., University of Pittsburgh, Graduate School of Public and International Affairs, 1998
B.A., Pennsylvania State University, 1996
Pennsylvania
American Bar Association; Pennsylvania Bar Association; Allegheny County Bar Association
