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Rated 3.7 out of 5
Firm: Friedman Kaplan Seiler and Adelman LLP
Broadway , New York , New York 10019
Practice Areas: Debtor/Creditor,Employment & Labor ,Mergers & Acquisitions
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Rated 3.3 out of 5
Firm: Gellert & Klein, P.C.
Washington Street , Poughkeepsie , New York 12601
Practice Areas: Employment & Labor
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Rated 3.6 out of 5
Firm: Ferrara, Fiorenza, Larrison, Barrett and Reitz, P.C.
5010 Campuswood Drive New 13057 , East Syracuse , New York 13057
Practice Areas: Education ,Employment & Labor ,Labor
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Rated 4.9 out of 5
MetLife Building 200 Park Avenue 10166 , New York , New York 10166
Practice Areas: Employment & Labor ,Taxation - State & Federal
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Rated 5.0 out of 5
Firm: Sanford Heisler Sharp McKnight
1350 Avenue of the Americas , New York , New York 10019
Practice Areas: Employment & Labor
David Sanford is the Chairman and Co-Founder of Sanford Heisler Sharp McKnight, a national law firm with offices in the District of Columbia, New York, California, Tennessee, and Maryland. He received his J.D. from Stanford Law School, M.A. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (ABD), and B.A. from Vassar College.. David clerked for Judge Gladys Kessler on the United States District Court for the District of Columbia.. NATIONAL RECOGNITION. David was inducted into The National Law Journal’s “Elite Trial Lawyers Hall of Fame” and selected as one of the top 100 trial lawyers in America by the National Trial Lawyers.. David was named an “Attorney of the Year Finalist” in 2018 by The American Lawyer, a “Plaintiffs’ Lawyer Trailblazer” in 2018 by The National Law Journal, and the “Labor & Employment Attorney of the Year” in 2021 and 2019 by Benchmark Litigation.. David is recognized as a top employment lawyer by The American Lawyer, Corporate Counsel, and The National Law Journal; and he has been ranked a “Leader in the Field in New York for Labor & Employment: Mainly Plaintiffs Representation” by Chambers and Partners.. David has also been recognized as an “Employment MVP” and a “Titan of the Plaintiffs Bar” by Law360, one of the leading plaintiff employment lawyers in America by Lawdragon, and as a “Top Rated Employment & Labor Attorney” in both Washington, DC and New York by Super Lawyers.. Every year since 2006, David has been AV-rated by Martindale-Hubbell, the highest rating given to an attorney by judges and attorneys nationwide, and he has been recognized in The Best Lawyers in America by Best Lawyers.. David is a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation.. PROFESSIONAL SERVICE. David and the attorneys at Sanford Heisler Sharp McKnight represent individuals in claims against corporate entities. Most cases are resolved through confidential and private mediation and before any matter is publicly filed.. David represents C-suite executives and non-managerial hourly employees throughout the United States. He has served as lead counsel in more than 50 class actions and numerous whistleblower and qui tam cases.. David has represented more than 100 general counsel and attorneys (in-house and law firm counsel) in contract disputes, employment matters, and severance negotiations.. NOTABLE SUCCESSES. David won as lead counsel the largest employment verdict in United States history, a $253 million dollar verdict on behalf of 6,000 women in Velez v. Novartis after a six-week trial in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York. He also was lead counsel in a $99 million dollar settlement against Novartis in a wage and hour class action on behalf of pharmaceutical representatives.. David has settled gender discrimination class actions with extensive class-wide relief against Daiichi Pharmaceuticals ($8.2 million), Qualcomm ($19.5 million) (named one of the top settlements in California in 2016 by ), Sanofi Pharmaceuticals ($15 million), Alcon Pharmaceuticals ($8 million), and Western Digital ($7.75 million). Other gender discrimination settlements include matters against Merck, Publicis Groupe, Forest Laboratories, and General Electric. Most matters are settled before a matter is publicly filed.. David was lead class counsel in a $14.25 million class action settlement against Rabbi Freundel and other defendants on behalf of women surreptitiously videotaped while performing a religious cleansing ritual.. David has been lead counsel for more than 100 women general counsel and partners at BigLaw firms throughout America. For example, on behalf of three women partners, he recently settled a case alleging gender discrimination and pay inequity against Chadbourne & Parke (now Norton Rose Fulbright). He also recently settled gender discrimination matters on behalf of woman partners at many AmLaw 100 firms. The vast majority of BigLaw cases have settled confidentially before a lawsuit was filed.. David was lead counsel in a $28 million wage and hour class settlement against Pac Bell, Bell South, and SNET; co-lead counsel in a $16 million race discrimination settlement against Kroger; class counsel in a $14 million settlement against Dartmouth in a Title IX and hostile environment matter; lead counsel in a $8.7 million settlement in a race discrimination class action against Cracker Barrel; and many other matters both public and private.. David was lead trial counsel for a professor at Columbia University Business School in a sexual harassment and retaliation matter, which culminated in a $1.25 million jury verdict after a three-week trial in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York. The verdict was named one of the top civil rights violation verdicts in the United States in 2018 by .. David is class counsel in ERISA matters pending against Home Depot, General Electric, Walgreens, and Allstate. He was class counsel in ERISA matters that recently settled against Eaton Vance and Transamerica.. David was co-counsel in a $762 million settlement between the United States government and Amgen. Amgen allegedly defrauded Medicare, Medicaid, and other governmental health care programs by promoting “off label” uses of certain prescription drugs and paying kickbacks to doctors and other health care providers.. COMMUNITY SERVICE. David has been a board member of the Neighborhood Defender Services of Harlem since 2011; a board member of CorpsAfrica since 2010; an advisory board member since 2014 of the Stanford University Center on the Legal Profession; an advisory board member since 2011 of the Foundation for Advocacy, Inclusion, and Resources, a non-profit focused on increasing diversity in the plaintiffs’ employment bar and raising public consciousness about workers’ rights; and a member of the advisory board of AerNos.
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Rated 3.3 out of 5
Firm: Lipman & Plesur , LLP
1350 Broadway , New York , New York 10018
Practice Areas: Employment & Labor , Labor , Employment & Labor, Employment & Labor
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Rated 3.2 out of 5
Firm: Greenwald Law Offices
99 Brookside Ave New 10918 , Chester , New York 10918
Practice Areas: Criminal Defense ,Employment & Labor
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Rated 3.4 out of 5
Firm: Rockland/Westchester Legal Services, P.C.
3 Bedford Rd , Monsey , New York 10952
Practice Areas: Civil , Corporate , Securities , Employment & Labor, Employment & Labor, Employment & Labor, Employment & Labor, Employment & Labor, Employment & Labor, Employment & Labor, Employment & Labor
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Rated 3.4 out of 5
Firm: Derfner and Gillett, LLP
600 Third Avenue 26th Floor 10016 , New York , New York 10016
Practice Areas: Business Formation,Corporate ,Corporate ,Employment & Labor ,Real Estate ,Securities
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Rated 3.3 out of 5
One Battery Park Plaza 10004 , New York , New York 10004
Practice Areas: Civil ,Employment & Labor ,Insurance
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Rated 1.0 out of 5
Firm: David M. Lira
595 Stewart Avenue 510 New 11530 , Garden City , New York 11530
Practice Areas: Civil Rights,Discrimination,Employee Benefits,Employment & Labor ,Government Agencies,Pension and Profit Sharing Plans,Social Security Benefits & Disability
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Rated 3.3 out of 5
Firm: Gilmartin & Bregman
320 Hampton Road New 11969 , Southampton , New York 11969
Practice Areas: Business Organizations,Employment & Labor ,Environmental ,Land Use & Zoning
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Rated 3.3 out of 5
Firm: David S. Bahn
301 Hasbrouck New 14850 , Ithaca , New York 14850
Practice Areas: Employment & Labor
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Rated 3.3 out of 5
Third Avenue , New York , New York 10022
Practice Areas: Civil ,Employment & Labor ,Securities ,White Collar Crime
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Rated 3.4 out of 5
Firm: Shaw, Perelson, May & Lambert LLP
21 Van Wagner Rd , Poughkeepsie , New York 12603
Practice Areas: Employment & Labor ,
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Firm: Cadwalader, Wickersham and Taft LLP
One World Financial Center 10281 , New York , New York 10281
Practice Areas: Employment & Labor ,Tax Audits,Tax Planning,Taxation - State & Federal
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Rated 3.8 out of 5
Firm: Kreitzman, Mortensen, & Borden
19th Floor 805 Third Avenue , New York , New York 10022
Practice Areas: General Practice, Employment & Labor, Employment & Labor
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Rated 3.3 out of 5
Firm: David G. Wallace
306 Haverling St , Bath , New York 14810
Practice Areas: Criminal Defense , Employment & Labor , Family , Probate , Family, Family
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Rated 5.0 out of 5
295 Madison Avenue 10017 , New York , New York 10017
Practice Areas: Contracts,Discrimination,Employment & Labor ,Family ,Religious Institutions,Sexual Harassment
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Rated 3.4 out of 5
Broad Street , New York , New York 10004
Practice Areas: Arbitration,Arbitration & Mediation,Civil ,Contracts,Discrimination,Employment & Labor ,Labor ,Mediation,Wages/Commissions/Overtime