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Sara Lonks Wong

Partner / Boston

Overview

Sara Lonks Wong is a partner in Nutter’s Litigation Department. She focuses her practice on business litigation, intellectual property litigation (with particular interest in copyright and trademark law), and complex commercial litigation.

Clients rely on Sara’s counsel, strategic thinking, oral advocacy skills, and writing skills in connection with contemplated litigation, threatened litigation, and the litigation lifecycle, including fact discovery, expert discovery, and trial. Both inside and outside federal and state courtrooms over the past decade, Sara has successfully defended clients in various industries, including insurance companies, banks, pharmaceutical companies, charitable corporations, publishers, and media companies.

Sara is recognized in The Best Lawyers in America “Ones to Watch.”

Notable Experience and Client Impact

  • Defending pub and restaurant against alleged trademark infringement claims.
  • Defending equipment supplier against alleged copyright infringement claims.
  • Representing leading insurance company in private arbitration.
  • Representing community foundation in suit in equity.
  • Representing eTrading technology company in contract action.
  • Representing various fiduciaries in probate court litigation.
  • Represented former CEO of biopharmaceutical company in contract action.
  • Represented affiliated companies in music industry and their president involving, among other things, intellectual property issues.
  • Represented various pharmaceutical companies in patent infringement litigation.
  • Represented leading technology company that faced claims concerning third-party sales of alleged counterfeit cashmere products on its platform.
  • Advised leading insurance company facing threatened claims of tortious interference, aiding and abetting breach of fiduciary duty, unfair competition, deceptive and unfair business acts and practices under Massachusetts statutory law, respondeat superior, violation of the federal Defend Trade Secrets Act, misappropriation of trade secrets and other confidential information, and civil conspiracy.
  • Defended banks in overdraft fee putative class actions involving breach of contract claims and alleged deceptive and unfair business acts and practices under Massachusetts statutory law.
  • Defended a bank in putative class action involving pass through of fees.
  • Defended leading provider of private passenger automobile insurance in putative class actions involving issues of third-party coverage.

Sara also has an active pro bono practice. Sara is committed to Nutter’s longstanding legacy of pro bono representation and commitment to civic and charitable engagement. Sara has advised clients in immigration, family law, education, asylum, and landlord-tenant housing matters.

In addition to her active practice, Sara is involved in Firm governance and serves on various Firm committees.

Prior to joining Nutter, Sara was a litigation associate at a major international law firm headquartered in New York, New York. She assumed lead roles on various case teams including those representing a publisher in federal court litigation involving trademark infringement, copyright ownership, and breach of contract issues as well as a global media company in federal court litigation involving various claims, including fraud and breach of contract. Sara also served as a key member of the trial teams securing three consecutive defense jury verdicts for a pharmaceutical conglomerate.

Experience

Experience

  • Nutter Client Professional Audio Design Successfully Defends Its 30-Year Brand

    Mike Leard, Ben Stern, and Sara Lonks Wong represented Professional Audio Design (PAD) in a successful resolution to a multi-year litigation brought in response to attacks by certain third parties on PAD’s premier brand of recording-studio speaker—Augspurger® Monitors. PAD has manufactured and sold Augspurger® Monitors for decades and its brand is synonymous with high end audio.

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Honors

Honors

  • The Best Lawyers in America "Ones to Watch", 2024-2025

Education & Admissions

Education

Boston College Law School, J.D., magna cum laude, Order of the Coif
College of the Holy Cross, B.A., magna cum laude

Admissions

  • Massachusetts
  • New York
  • U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
  • U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
  • U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts
  • U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York
  • U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

In the Community

Sara is a class agent, and proud alumnus, of the College of the Holy Cross.

Noteworthy

  • The Best Lawyers in America "Ones to Watch", 2024-2025
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