Jeff Sandman
You can’t win the game if you don’t know the rules. The rules in federal court are different—nuanced and unforgiving, whatever the cause of action may be. Even the attorney with decades of subject matter expertise will be outmatched in a federal proceeding if his or her career was built in a state courthouse.
Jeff is, first and foremost, a federal lawyer. As a federal prosecutor in the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Louisiana, he led dozens of criminal investigations relating to racketeering, financial, violent, and narcotics offenses. He has tried, and won, several federal jury trials and briefed and argued scores of dispositive, evidentiary, and discovery motions. Jeff has briefed more than a dozen cases before the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals and argued three of them before a three-judge panel—winning each time.
Before joining the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Jeff was a litigation associate in the Washington, D.C. office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. There, he drafted dispositive, evidentiary, and discovery motions in high stakes civil matters for Fortune 500 companies in federal court—including a motion to dismiss in a case of the first impression concerning the Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act, a First Amendment challenge to a New York City municipal ordinance for a Fortune 500 company, and a motion for summary judgment in a trademarks disputes among biotech companies.
Jeff’s legal career began as a law clerk for two federal judges—first, for then-Chief Judge Sarah Vance of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana, and then for Judge Jacques Wiener of the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals.
Jeff graduated from Michigan Law School, magna cum laude, in 2011, where he served as an editor on the Michigan Law Review. He is a 2006 magna cum laude graduate of the University of Pennsylvania. Jeff is barred to practice law in New York and Louisiana.
Jeff enjoys golf and tennis, vegetarian cooking, art projects involving found materials, and camping with his fiancée and dog.