Employment Attorney Sara O’Keefe Joins Foulston Siefkin LLP Kansas City Office
September 4, 2025
OVERLAND PARK, Kan. – Sara O’Keefe has joined Foulston Siefkin LLP’s litigation and employment practice in the firm’s Kansas City office. An employment and labor attorney, Sara has extensive experience counseling on the employment aspects of corporate transactions as well as providing day-to-day employment advice for executives and HR leaders. She brings more than 10 years of employment and labor experience, primarily in Kansas City private practice.
As part of a transactional team, Sara handles performing due diligence to identify potential liability, as well as negotiating employment-related terms in purchase agreements, deal-related executive employment and separation agreements, retention agreements, and transition services agreements.
Sara represents clients in all phases of employment litigation, including defense of discrimination and harassment claims, wrongful termination, and retaliation in state and federal courts and administrative proceedings. She is an experienced litigator skilled in arbitration, mediation, and negotiation, who works with a wide range of clients across multiple industries, including Fortune 500 companies, governmental entities, private equity firms, and nonprofits.
A Juris Doctor cum laude graduate of Washington University St. Louis School of Law, where she served as Notes Editor, Sara also earned a Bachelor of Arts in communications from MidAmerica Nazarene University.
As the largest law firm based in Kansas, with offices in Kansas City, Topeka, and Wichita, Foulston Siefkin LLP provides legal services to a broad range of clients — from large national and international corporations to closely held businesses and individuals. Foulston’s lawyers are consistently recognized as among the leading lawyers in the United States. For more than 100 years, Foulston’s lawyers have provided counsel in a wide range of practice areas, including civil and complex litigation, tax, business matters, employment and labor, and healthcare. For more information, contact Tammy Allen, chief marketing officer, at 316.291.9572, tallen@foulston.com; or visit www.foulston.com.
