Harrison LLP

Estate Planning & Trust Administration

Partner

Sarah Moore Johnson is a respected leader in the Washington, D.C. estate planning community. Her practice concentrates on estate planning, trust and estate administration, business succession planning, and charitable planning for wealthy individuals and their families. She particularly relishes streamlining and improving existing estate plans, building in tax efficiency and protection from divorce and creditors along the way. Ms. Johnson is an active Fellow of the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel (ACTEC) and has been ranked as a top wealth planning attorney by Chambers and Partners, Best Lawyers, Super Lawyers, and the Washingtonian magazine. Many of Sarah’s clients are family offices, entrepreneurs, real estate developers, and art collectors.

Sarah was a co-founding partner of Birchstone Moore LLC in 2014, a boutique private wealth law firm, that officially joined Harrison LLP in 2025. She is a frequent and award-winning speaker on tax and estate planning topics, from the Heckerling Institute on Estate Planning and national meetings of ACTEC and the American Bar Association, to local estate planning councils and regional symposiums across the country. Sarah was recognized by the American Bar Association Taxation Section as a Nolan Fellow in 2008 for her leadership as a young lawyer, and by the American Bar Association in 2022 as having delivered one of the most influential continuing legal education programs in the country.

Ms. Johnson is a graduate of Wake Forest University and the University of Georgia School of Law. She serves on the Board of Trustees of the Greater Washington Community Foundation and uses her positions of influence to advocate for racial equity, diversity and inclusion in the estate planning industry to help close the racial wealth gap.

Sarah is a Southerner at heart and puts clients at ease with her relaxed, friendly manner. She earns their respect with her attention to detail, practical advice, honesty and depth of knowledge.

Immediate Past President, President, Vice President, Board Director and Former Committee Chair, Washington DC Estate Planning Council (2013 to 2022)

Board of Trustees, Greater Washington Community Foundation (2021 to present)

Co-Chair, Greater Washington Community Foundation’s Professional Advisors Council (2018 to 2021)

Steering Committee, Estates Trusts & Probate Law Section of D.C. Bar Association (2014-2015)

Former Chair, Estate Planning Committee of the D.C. Bar Association Taxation Section (2008-2009; Vice Chair from 2005-2008)

Subcommittee Chair, American Bar Association Task Force for Tax Reform (helped author a report submitted to Congress in 2012)

Co-Founder, DC Trusts and Estates Attorneys Study Group

Fellow, American College of Trust and Estate Counsel (“ACTEC”)

Fellow, American Bar Foundation

University of Georgia School of Law, J.D., magna cum laude; Order of the Coif; Outstanding Notes Editor, Georgia Law Review; John C. O’Byrne Excellence in Taxation Award

Wake Forest University, B.S., magna cum laude; Thomas K. Hearn Excellence in Leadership Award; President, Panhellenic Council