Sarah Thompson
HR Managing Partner
With over 10 years in high-stakes employment litigation, Sarah has built a reputation for her surgical approach to negotiation. She doesn’t just litigate; she solves problems. Sarah leads our employment practice with the belief that legal counsel should be as human as the people it represents.
Expertise
Commercial Litigation • White-Collar Defense • Regulatory Compliance • Crisis Management
Education
University of Oxford • M.Phil. in International Relations
Admissions
New York State Bar • U.S. Supreme Court • U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
She started this firm because she got tired of watching good cases get handled badly.
Fifteen years in. Hundreds of matters across business disputes, employment law, and estate planning. Before Cavell, she spent eight years at a regional firm — good training, wrong culture.
The clients she remembers most aren't the ones with the biggest cases. They're the ones who came in not knowing what they were dealing with and left with a clear plan.
That's still the part she finds most useful.
Practice areas
Expertise across key legal areas.
How we works
What to expect when you work with us.
We read everything.
Before your first call, everything you’ve sent will already be reviewed. You won’t need to repeat yourself.
We show the reality.
Not the optimistic one, not the discouraging one. The accurate one, with the uncertainties clearly labeled.
We stay on your case.
You hired the attorney, not the firm. Your matter stays in experienced hands — without being passed around.
We respond quickly.
Not because we have to — because letting a client sit with uncertainty wastes everyone’s time.
Track record
Results we can talk about.
"The most useful thing I can do in a first conversation is help someone understand what they're actually dealing with — not what they're afraid they're dealing with."
Also at Cavell
Other attorneys.
Julian Cavell
CEO
With over 30 years in corporate litigation, Julian founded Cavell to prove strategy doesn't require big-firm overhead. He thinks several moves ahead, catching problems before they get costly. Julian leads the firm with the belief that smaller enterprises deserve the same caliber of counsel as companies twice their size.
Business & corporate law
Estate planning & probate
Daniel Rivera
Managing Partner
With a track record guiding families through some of life's most difficult transitions, Daniel has built a reputation for steady counsel under pressure. He doesn't just handle cases; he protects what matters most to the people going through them. Daniel leads with a business-first approach, believing every case still deserves a personal one.
Family law
Immigration law
