Sarah M. Purnell Shareholder Haynsworth Sinkler Boyd, Greenville

Sarah M. Purnell, a shareholder and trial attorney at Haynsworth Sinkler Boyd, focuses on defending healthcare professionals. 

With over 30 years’ experience, she defends and litigates medical malpractice claims. She has successfully tried many cases to verdict, including the most severe types of damages, including birth injuries, profound neurological and impairment and wrongful death cases.

Purnell also advises hospitals and physicians on matters of risk management, informed consent, patient confidentiality and peer review.

She received her bachelor’s degree from Auburn University in 1987 and went on to earn her law degree from the University of Alabama.

She is a former member of the boards of the Piedmont Health Foundation and the Greenville Free Medical Clinic and is active in many professional associations in the legal sector including the South Carolina Chapter of the American Board of Trial Advocates, the South Carolina Defense Trial Attorneys’ Association, the Federation of Defense & Corporate Counsel, and the Defense Research Institute.