Sara Lock

For about five years, Sara Lock sat at the other table. She prosecuted for the Campbell County Attorney’s Office and eventually carried the heaviest felony caseload in that office, which means she learned exactly how the State builds a case and puts it in front of a jury. She uses that now to hold the State to its burden of proof.

Sara joined Just Criminal Law as a Senior Associate Attorney because she believes the system needs capable defense as much as it needs capable prosecution. She had watched people walk into a courtroom they didn’t understand and make decisions without really seeing what came next. Helping someone reach the best possible outcome for their circumstances, she believes, serves justice for everyone in it.

Most days she’s in front of a judge somewhere in northeast Wyoming. Initial appearances where bond gets argued, scheduling conferences, change of plea hearings, sentencings. Between hearings she meets with clients to walk through the elements the State actually has to prove, what challenges can be filed, and how a plea offer compares to taking the case to a jury. She reads the discovery herself: law enforcement reports, dashcam and bodycam video, photographs, lab and medical records. Most weeks she’s also preparing witnesses and exhibits for an evidentiary hearing or a trial on the calendar.

Before she practiced criminal law, Sara spent six years as a staff attorney inside the judiciary. Nearly four of those were at the appellate level with the Idaho Supreme Court, and two were with a district court judge right here in Wyoming’s Sixth Judicial District, which covers Campbell, Crook and Weston counties. She knows how these courts run from the inside. Her earlier work also includes four years of civil practice in family law, contract disputes and estate planning, plus a first job out of law school defending First Amendment claims as litigation counsel in Arizona.

Clients get a lawyer wearing several hats: counselor, teacher, analyst, and advocate at trial when a case needs to go there. Sara likes taking a complicated concept apart until someone without a law degree can make a real decision about their own case. That starts with listening to what a client is actually worried about, not just what the charging document says.

Away from the office, Sara travels with her husband and their tiny dogs, camps when the weather cooperates, and gets to as many concerts as she can. She spent thirteen years of her childhood overseas and is fluent in French. Her motto: do justice, love mercy, and walk humbly with God.