Sara Director is a Partner at Barasch & McGarry who handles 9/11 Victim Compensation Fund (VCF) claims, as well as complex personal injury cases.
Sara joined Barasch & McGarry in 2006 and earned her partnership in 2018, after demonstrating her dedication and commitment to the firm’s clients, resulting in numerous multi-million-dollar recoveries. Sara, a 9/11 survivor, interacts with the firm’s 9/11 clients daily, from their initial phone call to submitting their claims to the Victim Compensation Fund.

Sara takes a hands-on approach to her cases, working directly with our clients to ensure that they feel comfortable with the process and that their voices are heard. Her own 9/11 experience provides her unique insight and compassion toward our clients. From day one until the case is resolved, Sara is a fierce advocator and has demonstrated herself to be a champion for 9/11 and accident victims.
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Drawing upon her two decades of court litigation experience, she has successfully won multiple appeals for our 9/11 clients. Her persistence, legal insight, and personal attention to every client have enabled her to win even the most challenging of appeal situations.
She has also been honored to lecture at numerous 9/11-related events to help spread the word about the Victim Compensation Fund and World Trade Center Health Care Program.
In addition to her 9/11 work, her practice includes all types of general negligence cases, with an emphasis on line-of-duty accidents on behalf of the FDNY and NYPD, as well as motor vehicle, trips and falls, premises liability and labor law accidents.
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Sara’s accomplishments have been recognized by her peers in the legal community, earning her a place as a Rising Star in the 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015 and a Super Lawyer 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021 and 2022 in the editions of Super Lawyers magazine. She has also been asked to lecture to her peers in the legal community on various legal topics.ATTORNEY SPENCER PARR: If you’ve been injured, and the IME doctors say you weren’t, we’re here for you. We have one of the largest, and most experienced, L&I teams in the state of Washington. We help people with the biggest questions of law, the highest needs, and the largest cases. We fight municipalities, we fight large companies, and we fight the state of Washington. We fight, you win. Because when it comes to the quality and the experience of the legal team fighting for you: size matters.
Sara is passionate about helping others, particularly those who are unaware of their rights. She works meticulously to ensure her clients (injured workers in Washington state) are properly compensated for the injuries they have suffered due to their profession and work environment.

Sara was born in Los Angeles and raised in Seattle. She majored in law and justice and received her law degree in Arizona. In her free time, she enjoys CrossFit, hiking, traveling, and cooking.
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We are an injury law firm in Washington focused on our clients and the community we serve. We are here for you during difficult times, we are solution oriented, and we get results.
Don’t let large corporations, insurance companies, or your employer convince you that they have all the power. Choose Washington Law Center to fight for you!

ATTORNEY ASHTON DENNIS: Washington Law Center is strictly client-focused. We are always, always worried about making sure that they understand what’s going on throughout the process because ultimately we hear that that’s the one of the biggest attractors between attorneys and public, is a sense that they think that they’re disconnected and don’t understand what’s going on. I think that that’s the exact opposite of what people would get here at Washington Law Center.
Sara Roque Profile
ATTORNEY SPENCER PARR: We have litigation experience that we will put up against anyone. We have verdicts that are news-making verdicts. We have a reputation in the community as a firm where if we lock on to a case, and we tell you we’re going to drive it home, we are going to drive it home.
ATTORNEY ASHTON DENNIS: We strive and do our very best to take the cases that other firms wouldn’t because they’re not just cookie-cutter, simple cases. Those are the cases that I truly think distinguish us from the other attorneys out there.

ATTORNEY SPENCER PARR: When people hire us, one of the things that they experiences that the cares if they’re case, the things that have been consuming them, the worries, the anxiety, all of that worried and trepidation, that is essentially shifted onto the professional, responsible shoulders of the attorney at Washington Law Center. We are not a mill. We want to get to know our clients. You’re free to come in and meet with us anytime about questions that are going on in your case. Our communication, our dedication, our zeal, our absolute passion to present the rights of our clients and vindicate their position is what differentiates us from many others.
Sara A. Austin, Immediate Past President
ATTORNEY ASHTON DENNIS: You have the opportunity to hire any attorney out there that you want. I truly believe our results stand up to any firm out there. But, you will find a personal experience. You will find someone that’s going to dedicate whatever time, whatever resources, whatever amount of money, whatever amount of energy is needed to be successful in your case, coupled with the access to your team because that’s what we are: we are your team.
ATTORNEY SPENCER PARR: We cannot give up because our clients need us to stand through the fire, through doubts, fight the fight and get the job done. We never lose focus on the mission. The mission is our client’s life. We protect it. We promote it.
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We are an injury law firm in Washington focused on our clients and the community we serve. We are here for you during difficult times, we are solution oriented, and we get results.
Don’t let large corporations, insurance companies, or your employer convince you that they have all the power. Choose Washington Law Center to fight for you!

ATTORNEY ASHTON DENNIS: Washington Law Center is strictly client-focused. We are always, always worried about making sure that they understand what’s going on throughout the process because ultimately we hear that that’s the one of the biggest attractors between attorneys and public, is a sense that they think that they’re disconnected and don’t understand what’s going on. I think that that’s the exact opposite of what people would get here at Washington Law Center.
Sara Roque Profile
ATTORNEY SPENCER PARR: We have litigation experience that we will put up against anyone. We have verdicts that are news-making verdicts. We have a reputation in the community as a firm where if we lock on to a case, and we tell you we’re going to drive it home, we are going to drive it home.
ATTORNEY ASHTON DENNIS: We strive and do our very best to take the cases that other firms wouldn’t because they’re not just cookie-cutter, simple cases. Those are the cases that I truly think distinguish us from the other attorneys out there.

ATTORNEY SPENCER PARR: When people hire us, one of the things that they experiences that the cares if they’re case, the things that have been consuming them, the worries, the anxiety, all of that worried and trepidation, that is essentially shifted onto the professional, responsible shoulders of the attorney at Washington Law Center. We are not a mill. We want to get to know our clients. You’re free to come in and meet with us anytime about questions that are going on in your case. Our communication, our dedication, our zeal, our absolute passion to present the rights of our clients and vindicate their position is what differentiates us from many others.
Sara A. Austin, Immediate Past President
ATTORNEY ASHTON DENNIS: You have the opportunity to hire any attorney out there that you want. I truly believe our results stand up to any firm out there. But, you will find a personal experience. You will find someone that’s going to dedicate whatever time, whatever resources, whatever amount of money, whatever amount of energy is needed to be successful in your case, coupled with the access to your team because that’s what we are: we are your team.
ATTORNEY SPENCER PARR: We cannot give up because our clients need us to stand through the fire, through doubts, fight the fight and get the job done. We never lose focus on the mission. The mission is our client’s life. We protect it. We promote it.
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