Washington, DC
Civil rights Lawyer at Washington, DC
Practice Areas: Civil Rights, Employment & Labor ... +3 more
OUTCOME: Successful Settlement
Passionately fought effort vs. entrenched, monied corporation accused of race discrimination against its black employees. Case pursued in conjunction with national NAACP (General Counsel Dennis C. Hay ... es). In the end, following several years of pitched resistance by the corporation, Department of Justice intervened and the case finally achieved positive settlement.
OUTCOME: settled for $58.5 million
one of the largest class action age discrimination cases in US history
OUTCOME: $250 million award
In the largest gender discrimination case to ever go to trial, Sanford Heisler successfully represented a class of 5,600 female sales representatives of Novartis Pharmaceutical Company in their gender ... pay and promotion and pregnancy discrimination claims. A unanimous decision by a jury of nine found Novartis liable for gender discrimination in pay and promotion and pregnancy-related matters and awarded 12 former Novartis sales reps $3.36 million in compensatory damages and the class of 5,600 women an additional $250 million in punitive damages In addition, the verdict from the jury meant that the remaining 5,600 women in the class were also entitled to additional awards of backpay and to seek compensatory damage awards up to $300,000 each. The verdict and the resulting monetary awards was the largest ever in the U.S in an employment discrimination case.
OUTCOME: $99 million settlement
The law firm of Sanford Heisler, LLP and Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation (”Novartis”) have reached a $99 million settlement to resolve a nation-wide wage and hour class action originally brought b ... y Sanford Heisler in the Southern District of New York on March 23, 2006 on behalf of current and former Novartis sales representatives. In their class and collective action lawsuit, thousands of Novartis sales representatives claim they are owed overtime pay under state and federal labor laws because they work more than 40 hours during a work week.
OUTCOME: $23.5 million settlement
Sanford Heisler Kimpel, LLP won a more than $4.4 million qui tam settlement against Medtronic, Inc., one of the world’s largest medical device manufacturers. The whistleblower, represented by the firm ... and the U.S. Department of Justice, alleged that Medtronic violated the Trade Agreements Act (“TAA”) and the False Claims Act by selling products to the Government that were manufactured in countries with which the United States is not a trading partner, under contracts governed by the TAA.
Ad
Transform legal challenges into solutions.
Connect now to review your situation.
