Sherri is an accomplished trial attorney with experience in a wide variety of civil litigation in federal and state courts, including substantial experience in defending class action lawsuits. She has successfully represented public companies, small businesses and not-for-profit organizations, both as plaintiffs and defendants. With a concentration in business law, she has represented broker dealers, agents, employees and customers of broker dealers in Court and before the securities industry self-regulatory organizations. In addition to her background in litigation, Sherri has many years of experience in general corporate law. Sherri was named "Missouri's Best Lawyer if the SEC Calls" by a Missouri Lawyers Weekly survey and was selected for inclusion in the Missouri & Kansas Super Lawyers®.
Sherri was part of a legal team that in January 2012 won a unanimous ruling from the U.S. Supreme Court in a case heralded as the most significant religious-freedom case decided by the High Court in decades. Sherri represented Hosanna-Tabor, a member congregation of The Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod, in the case, Hosanna-Tabor Evangelical Lutheran Church and School v. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, et al. In issuing its ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court for the first time acknowledged the "ministerial exception," a doctrine grounded in the First Amendment that bars claims by ministers and other religious leaders under employment-discrimination laws.