Sara E. Bloch is an associate in Pettit Kohn’s San Diego office and focuses her practice on professional liability and business litigation matters.

Sara obtained her Juris Doctor in 2021 from California Western School of Law. In addition to graduating cum laude, Sara participated in numerous scholastic activities. After competing in a campus-wide advocacy program, school faculty honored Sara with a Distinguished Advocate Award for outstanding trial skills. This award allowed Sara to go on and actively compete on California Western’s National Trial Team. In her spare time Sara served as an honors teaching fellow, where she mentored first-year law students and taught a weekly large group tutoring session on the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure. Upon concluding law school, Sara received numerous awards, including the CWSL Faculty Award, the Gordon & Holmes Advocacy Award, the Dean’s Diversity Award, and Academic Merit Scholarships.

Prior to joining Pettit Kohn, Sara was a judicial extern for the Honorable Anthony J. Battaglia of the United States District Court for the Southern District of California where she worked on a wide array of issues from business litigation to personal injury matters. Sara also served as a Certified Legal Intern for the California Attorney General’s Office where she drafted appellate briefs and successfully argued before the California Court of Appeal. Sara also interned in both the United States Attorney’s Office, where she worked on Project Safe Childhood cases, a nationwide federal initiative to end child exploitation, and the San Diego County District Attorney’s Office, where she participated in the annual summer advocacy competition where her oral advocacy skills earned her a place as a semi-finalist in the office-wide competition.