Sarah Doles on Finding Your Voice After the Bench

Raising the Bar with RebuttalPR · Feb 18, 2026 · 31m

In Episode 29 of Raising the Bar with RebuttalPR, Ray DeLorenzi sits down with Sarah Doles, shareholder at Levin Papantonio, for a conversation about evolution, credibility, and what it means to step into advocacy after more than a decade inside the federal judiciary.

Sarah’s path to plaintiffs’ work was not linear. After watching her father argue before the United States Supreme Court, she chose law school with a desire to “fight the good fight,” then spent over thirteen years clerking at both the Eighth Circuit and the Southern District of Illinois. Those years shaped how she views…