Sanford Heisler Sharp McKnight, LLP
Employment Discrimination | Serving Palo Alto, CA
888-681-5583Sanford Heisler Sharp McKnight, LLP, a reputable Employment Discrimination firm with an office in Palo Alto, serving across the country.
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Sanford Heisler Sharp McKnight, LLP is celebrated by the leading professional journals as the number one ranked employment rights firm and number one ranked human rights firm, drawing acclaim from judges across the country, top publications evaluating the legal industry, the nation’s leading mediators, and even adversaries against whom we litigate.
Sanford Heisler Sharp McKnight, LLP has attorneys who have collectively tried hundreds of cases, a former federal Chief Judge who has tried and overseen as judge over one-hundred cases, attorneys who have clerked for state and federal judges across the United States, and a brilliant staff which supports the firm’s attorneys and plays a vital role in case management. We have won precedent-setting verdicts and settlements for C-Suite executives, attorneys, directors, managers, and hourly workers. We are a firm of passionate and dedicated professionals who care deeply about justice and routinely outperform attorneys and staff on the other side.
Contact us today if you need legal assistance with any of the following:
- Discrimination & Harassment
- Whistleblower & Qui Tam
- Financial Services Litigation
- Asian American Litigation & Finance
- Wage & Hour Laws
- Criminal/Sexual Violence Litigation
- Trial Practice
- Appellate Practice
- Other Public Interest Litigation
- ERISA
- Securities Law
- Wrongful Termination - Plaintiff
- Labor & Employment
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Attorney David Sanford
Bar Admissions:
- New York
- Maryland, 1997
- District of Columbia, 1998
Education:
- J.D., Stanford Law School
- ABD, UNC, Chapel Hill
- M.A., UNC, Chapel Hill
- B.A., Vassar College
Professional Memberships and Achievements:
- U.S. Supreme Court, 2005
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, 1998
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, 2016
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, 2017
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, 2010
- U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland, 1998
- U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, 1998
- U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Florida, 2006
- U.S. District Court for the Central District of Illinois, 2006
- U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, 2020
Attorney Jeremy Heisler
Bar Admissions:
- New York, 1980
Education:
- J.D., Brooklyn Law School, magna cum laude
- Editor, Brooklyn Law Review
- B.A., Brooklyn College, cum laude
Professional Memberships and Achievements:
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, 1984
- U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York, 1980
- U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, 1980
Attorney Kevin Sharp
Bar Admissions:
- Tennessee, 1993
- U.S. Supreme Court
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
- U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee
- U.S. District Court for the Western District of Tennessee
- U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee
- U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Ohio
- U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan
- U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin
Education:
- J.D., Vanderbilt University School of Law
- B.S., Christian Brothers College, summa cum laude
Professional Memberships and Achievements:
- Sustaining Life Fellow, American Bar Foundation
- Fellow, Napier-Looby Bar Foundation
- Fellow, Nashville Bar Foundation
- Member, American Bar Association
- Member, Nashville Bar Association
- Member, Tennessee Bar Association
- Member, Federal Bar Association
- Member, National Employment Lawyers Association (NELA)
- Tennessee Bar Association Leadership Law Class, 2005
- Board member, Tennessee Supreme Court Lawyers’ Fund for Client Protection, 2004-2009
- Member, TBPR Disciplinary Hearing Committee, 2000-2006
- Special Disciplinary Counsel to the Tennessee Supreme Court, 2001
- Former president, ALS Association, Tennessee Chapter (nonprofit organization dedicated to serving patients and families living with Lou Gehrig’s Disease)
- Volunteer Counsel, Jeanne A. Carpenter Epilepsy Legal Defense Fund, 2005-2010
- Former board member (2001-2004) and legal counsel (1994-2004), Girl Scout Council of Cumberland Valley
Attorney H. Vincent McKnight Jr.
Bar Admissions:
- District of Columbia, 1980
- Maryland, 2009
- U.S. Supreme Court
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
- U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia
- U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland
- U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania
Education:
- J.D., University of Pennsylvania School of Law
- B.A., Brown University
Professional Memberships and Achievements:
- Taxpayers Against Fraud Education Fund Conference Committee (2017, 2018)
Attorney Charles Field
Bar Admissions:
- California, 1997
Education:
- J.D., McGeorge Law School
- B.A., Indiana University-Indianapolis
- European Legal Studies, The University of Edinburgh and The University of Salzburg