Member

Sarah Cronan Spurlock

Sarah Cronan Spurlock is a member of the firm’s Health Care Service Group and is Co-Chair of the firm’s Privacy & Data Security Group. Sarah regularly advises clients on a wide range of health care issues, including fraud and abuse laws, compliance guidance, physician self-referral, physician employment agreements, physician and hospital contracting, technology and general contracting, HIPAA privacy and security, and data breach prevention and response. Her practice includes regulatory and transactional matters and health care litigation. Sarah is a Certified Information Privacy Professional (CIPP/US) and serves as the firm’s Chief Privacy Officer.

Recent Assignments

Successfully obtained summary judgment for a healthcare provider in Jefferson Circuit Court in a putative class action asserting claims for negligence, negligence per se, and invasion of privacy stemming from an alleged data breach disclosing patient information. Judgment was obtained prior to any class being certified.

Bar Admissions

Kentucky

Firm Leadership

Chief Privacy Officer

Privacy & Data Security Practice Group, Co-Chair

Office of General Counsel, as Chief Privacy Officer

Memberships

American Bar Association

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Health Law Section

Kentucky Bar Association

Louisville Bar Association

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Health Law Section, Chair (2011)

American Health Lawyers Association

International Association of Privacy Professionals

International Association of Defense Counsel

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Cyber Security, Data Privacy and Technology Committee, Past Chair

Community Involvement

Yew Dell Botanical Gardens, Board of Directors (2018-present)

Louisville Legal Aid Society, Volunteer (2009-16)

Sisters of Charity of Nazareth, Inc., Board of Directors (2011-16)

Focus Louisville, February 2016 Class

Education

J.D.,

2009

magna cum laude

University of Kentucky College of Law

Org / Honor

Order of the Coif

Kentucky Law Journal, Notes Editor and Outstanding 2L Source and Cite Editor

Robert G. Schwemm Scholarship; Dorothy Salmon Memorial Scholarship

Marshall Writing Club, best appellant brief and best appellant oral argument

University of Kentucky Equine Law Society

Golden Key International Honour Society

B.A., Sociology,

2000

Indiana University

Org / Honor

Double minor, Philosophy & Psychology

More Than Stites & Harbison

Sarah joined Stites & Harbison in September of 2009 after participating in the firm’s summer associate program in 2008. In the summer of 2007, she worked in the legal department at Brown-Forman Corporation in Louisville. Before law school, Sarah lived in New York City where she worked at Friedman, Wang & Bleiberg, P.C. as a paralegal, and Lehman Brothers, Inc. in human resources supporting the information technology division.

Sarah is an accomplished equestrian and enjoys riding American Saddlebred horses in her free time.

Accolades

Best Lawyers in America®, Health Care Law (2019-25)

Business First of Louisville, 20 People to Know in Law (2018)

Business First of Louisville, Partners in Health Care People to Watch (2014)