About Sara Wyn
Sara Wyn Kane is a partner at Valli Kane & Vagnini LLP, a law firm based in Garden City, New York. She has been practicing law in New York since 1999. The firm, located at 600 Old Country Road, Suite 519, Garden City, NY 11530, specializes in employment law, including employee benefits, employment contracts, employment discrimination, ERISA, overtime and unpaid wages, sexual harassment, whistleblower cases, and wrongful termination. Sara earned her Juris Doctor with distinction from Hofstra University School of Law in 1998, where she served as the Managing Editor of the Hofstra Labor & Employment Law Journal. She completed her undergraduate studies at Boston University, graduating cum laude with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in 1994.
Throughout her career, Sara has focused on civil rights and employment discrimination cases, handling issues such as race, gender, age, disability, national origin, sexual orientation, and religion. She has also managed wage and hour disputes and whistleblower claims. Sara's litigation experience includes serving as an Assistant Corporation Counsel in the Manhattan Trial Unit for the City of New York. She conducted and defended numerous depositions and participated in extensive motion practice, pre-trial, and trial work. In private practice, Sara has supervised teams of attorneys in prosecuting and settling mass action race, gender, and age discrimination cases involving thousands of plaintiffs, resulting in multi-million dollar settlements.
She has been appointed lead or co-lead counsel in various mass and class action cases nationwide, often collaborating with other prominent plaintiffs' discrimination and wage and hour firms. Sara has been recognized for her professional achievements, being selected as a Super Lawyer from 2018 to 2025. She has also received the Outstanding Women in the Law Award from Hofstra Law’s Center for Children, Families and the Law in 2016 and the Leadership in the Law Award from Long Island Business News in the same year. She is a member of the New York State Bar Association, Nassau County Bar Association, American Bar Association, National Employment Lawyers Association, and other professional organizations. Sara has been admitted to practice in the U.S.
District Courts for the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York, the District of New Mexico, and the United States Supreme Court. She has been involved in significant cases, including representing a former senior executive in a gender discrimination lawsuit against Mitsubishi Chemical Holding Corporation and Mitsubishi Chemical Holdings America, alleging intentional gender discrimination in executive appointments. Sara's experience and dedication to employment law have established her as a leading attorney in her field.
