Bio
Adjunct Professor Amelia Sargent is a litigator and counsel in the Los Angeles and Washington, D.C. offices of Larson LLP, a litigation boutique specializing in complex commercial and white collar cases.
In her litigation practice, she represents clients in a wide range of industries, including energy, consumer goods, transportation, technology, and museums and cultural institutions. She has experience litigating at both the trial and appellate level in matters ranging from mass torts, class actions, copyright and trademark, discrimination claims, contract disputes, corporate duties, and trade secret and employee mobility actions.
Professor Sargent has represented museums in matters ranging from cultural property restitution to employment discrimination suits, and provided “outside in-house” counseling to museums on ethical policies and board duties. She regularly serves as faculty for the ALI-CLE Legal Issues in Museum Administration conference on panels presenting ethics and litigation topics. She is the author or co-author of two law review articles examining restitution and displaced cultural property and she frequently contributes to the newsletter for the American Bar Association Section of International Law Art & Cultural Heritage Law Committee. Between 2014 and 2021, she served on the board of California Lawyers for the Arts.
Professor Sargent joined Larson after practicing at two other litigation firms, Munger, Tolles & Olson LLP and Willenken LLP. She earned her J.D. from Stanford Law School and has a Ph.D. in medieval literature from the University of California, Berkeley.