NEW YORK, November 9, 2023, New York – Sanford Heisler Sharp announced today that Benchmark Litigation has again named it one of the nation’s Tier 1 labor and employment litigation law firms.
In addition, David Sanford, the firm’s co-Founder and Chairman, and Deborah Marcuse, the firm’s Managing Partner and Baltimore co-Managing Partner, were named among the nation’s “Top 50 Labor & Employment Litigators,” characterized by Benchmark Litigation as “an elite group of lawyers recognized by peers and clients alike for their exceptional reputations and achievements in this field of practice.” A dozen Sanford Heisler Sharp Partners – including Sanford and Marcuse – were also named “Labor and Employment Stars” by the publication.
“Our lawyers achieved an exceptional record for resolving very significant employment disputes on behalf of individual plaintiffs and plaintiff groups over the past year,” said Sanford. “We appreciate the recognition that Benchmark Litigation provides for those important outcomes; and we are particularly gratified to achieve results that change our clients’ lives for the better.”
The firm’s 2023 Labor and Employment Stars in addition to Sanford and Marcuse include Palo Alto and San Francisco Partners Danielle Fuschetti and Felicia Gilbert; Managing Partner of the Washington, DC, office and Co-Ombudsperson H. Vincent McKnight Jr.; and the Firm Administrative Partner Kate Mueting.
Other of Sanford Heisler Sharp’s 2023 Labor and Employment Stars include New York Partners Andrew Melzer and Michael Palmer; co-Vice Chairman Jeremy Heisler; Partner and General Counsel Russell Kornblith; and co-Vice Chairman Judge Kevin Sharp.
Each year, the Benchmark team interviews labor and employment litigators across the United States to identify the leading lawyers and law firms. Its extensive research cycle includes an in-depth examination of the most significant cases of the year and an analysis of peer review and market feedback.
About Sanford Heisler Sharp
Sanford Heisler Sharp is a public interest and civil rights law firm with offices in New York, Washington, DC, San Francisco, Palo Alto, Baltimore, Nashville, and San Diego. The firm focuses on employment discrimination, Title IX, wage and hour, whistleblower and qui tam, criminal/sexual violence, financial services, and Asian American litigation and finance matters. Our lawyers have recovered over $1 billion for our clients through many verdicts and settlements. In 2022, The National Law Journal named Sanford Heisler Sharp Civil Rights Firm of the Year, and it recognized the firm in 2021 as both the Employment Rights Firm of the Year and the Human Rights Firm of the Year. The firm has devoted countless pro bono hours in representing Leonard Peltier. The United Nations Human Rights Council’s Working Group on Arbitrary Detention called on the United States to “take urgent action to ensure the immediate release of Mr. Peltier,” an indigenous rights activist who is a Sanford Heisler Sharp client that has been wrongfully incarcerated by the U.S. government for almost 50 years.
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