Brenda M. Sauro became a shareholder at the construction law firm of Hammargren and Meyer, P.A., in 2007, serving homeowners and condominium and townhome associations in the Minneapolis/St. Paul metropolitan area. She earned a Bachelor of Arts degree with honors from the University of Wyoming in Laramie.  She earned her law degree, cum laude, at William Mitchell College of Law in St. Paul, Minnesota, and won first place in the Moot Court competition. Brenda Sauro was named to the Super Lawyers list in 2009 and 2010.

Attorney Sauro is a zealous advocate for her clients.  Her practice areas include residential defect claims, construction law appeals and litigation and general commercial construction claims. She is a published author who has assisted homeowners and condominium and townhome associations with moisture intrusion, construction defect and insurance claims. 

Brenda Sauro has successfully litigated more than 300 construction defect claims, securing millions of dollars in claims resolution on behalf of her clients.  Some of her awards include: an arbitration award of $326,000 in favor of purchasers of a home in a nondisclosure case; an arbitration award ordering sellers to repurchase a home for $495,000 and pay $76,000 in damages to the purchaser based on the sellers' nondisclosures; an arbitration award of $217,000 in favor of clients due to sellers' nondisclosures in a real estate transaction; plus verdicts of $3.3 million, $419,000 and $320,000 in favor of injured consumers in three separate cases.

As a trial lawyer with nearly 20 years of experience, Sauro is an advocate who has won numerous arbitration awards for rescission and damages for Minnesota homebuyers.  Practicing preventative-law is a passion for attorney Sauro and she enjoys advising her clients at the outset of contractual relationships as to how to protect their interests.