Sarah Gad
Sarah Gad is a founding partner of Gad & Gad Law Offices in Minneapolis, Minnesota, which specializes in criminal defense, wrongful convictions, and immigration advocacy. Sarah is known nationally for her commitment to fighting for justice — and seeing justice prevail in courtrooms across the country.
Before relocating to her home state of Minnesota, Sarah worked for celebrity attorney Kathleen Zellner in Chicago. She played a pivotal role in several high-profile cases, including Mario Casciaro's exoneration and Steven Avery's appeal from the Netflix series Making a Murderer. In 2019. Sarah also represented Lil Durk's brother in a drug-related matter and single handedly got the entire case dismissed on 4th Amendment grounds. In 2019, Sarah received the University of Chicago Humanitarian Award for her work as a law student in uncovering dozens of fake stash houses that exonerated 13 men in Chicago's South Side of Chicago.
That' not all: after being injured in a car crash in 2011, Sarah herself became addicted to the pain medication that she was prescribed. After being criminalized for her addiction, thrown in jail for it, and stigmatized with a "criminal" record, she decided she had no choice but to fight back. She attended the University of Chicago Law School—one of the top law schools int he country—and she now fights for her clients in the exact same courtrooms that she was handcuffed and shackled in years ago—and most importantly, she often prevails.
- University of Chicago
- J.D. (2020) | Doctor of Law
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- University of Minnesota - Twin Cities
- B.S. (2009) | Chemistry, Microbiology
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- Honors: Summa Cum Laude Highest Distinction
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- Founding Partner
- Gad & Gad Law Offices LLP
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- Assistant Attorney
- KNN Law Offices
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- Forensics Director; Associate
- Law Offices of Kathleen T. Zellner & Associates
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- Prisoners are Patients: The Unconstitutionality of Depriving Inmates With Opioid Use Disorder Access to Medication-Assisted Treatment
- Prison Legal News
- Addicts Are Dying in Jail. They don't have to.
- Marie Claire Magazine
- First, Do No Harm? Opioids as an Iatrongenic Epidemic, Tulane Medicine Grand Rounds, New Orleans, LA
- Tulane University Medical Center
- Countering the Global Narcotics Epidemic: The U.S. Counternacotics Strategy, Caucus on International Narcotics Control, Washington, DC
- Prisoners Eligibility for Pell Grants, Congressional Black Caucus Briefing, Washington, DC
- Prisoners Are Patients: The Unconstitutionality of Criminalizing the Disease of Addiction, Medical Grand Rounds
- Virginia Hospital System
- Keynote Speaker, National Muslim Law Students Association, Chicago, IL
- Top Ten Under 40 Defense Attorney
- National Academy of Defense Lawyers
- Criminal Law Specialist
- Minnesota Society for Criminal Justice
- University of Chicago Humanitarian Award
- University of Chicago Law School
- Recipient of the 2019 University of Chicago Humanitarian Award for pro bono legal work.
- State Bar of Minnesota # 0403328
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- Minnesota
- Minnesota Supreme Court
- ID Number: 0403328
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Rates, Retainers and Additional Information
Our firm has a fixed fee for different types of services. We also offer an a sliding scale payment system for low-income clients.
- Criminal Law
- Criminal Appeals, Drug Crimes, Fraud, Gun Crimes, Sex Crimes, Theft, Violent Crimes
- Appeals & Appellate
- Civil Appeals, Federal Appeals
- Immigration Law
- Asylum, Citizenship, Deportation Defense, Family Visas, Green Cards, Immigration Appeals, Investment Visas, Marriage & Fiancé(e) Visas, Student Visas, Visitor Visas, Work Visas
- Arabic: Spoken, Written
- English: Spoken, Written
- Q. Can they have me testify against my girlfriend in a criminal case if we get married after they charge her?
- A: The short answer is that yes, a couple can marry for the purpose of gaining access to the marital privilege in court actions, even if the charges are pending when the marriage happens. But, Marital privilege for evidentiary purposes is actually two separate privileges:
The first is the privilege not to testify against a current spouse in a legal proceeding. You must assert this privilege in order for it to apply.
The second is the privilege not to testify regarding confidential communications made to a spouse while the couple was married. Both have exceptions (e.g. for crimes in which one of the spouses is the victim or where the parties are suing each other). However, a confidential ... Read More
- Q. Can they charge me separately give me two different charges for the same pull over stop or should they be together.
- A: It sounds like you were pulled over on suspicion of a DUI and the police officer searched the car and allegedly discovered a controlled substance in the vehicle. It is pretty atypical for someone to be charged separately for alleged offenses arising from the same incident, but it is permissible and not unheard of. I'm assuming that you were charged with the DUI immediately, were represented by a public defender, and resolved that case and then you got hit with the 5th Degree Possession charge a year later when you were least expecting it.
An unfortunate flaw in our legal system is that it does not really care about the hardships it inflicts on the lives of defendants. If you do not feel ... Read More
- Q. Can I carry a gun while picking up my daughter?
- A: You can carry your firearm in your vehicle as long as it is unloaded and in the closed trunk of your vehicle. If you want immediate access to the firearm, you need a permit to carry. The law does not regard self-defense as an excuse to not not have a permit to carry.
You can apply for a permit to carry here: https://dps.mn.gov/divisions/bca/bca-divisions/administrative/Pages/firearms-permit-to-carry.aspx
Hope this helps!
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