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David J. Sandler

Associate


David Sandler is an associate in O’Melveny’s Washington, DC office and a member of the Litigation Department.  His primary practice areas are Strategic Counseling, Political Law, and White Collar Defense and Corporate Investigations.

Illustrative Professional Experience

  • Representing companies in connection with House, Senate and regulatory investigations
  • Defending health insurer in purported class action alleging “silent PPO” conspiracy
  • Defending health insurer in purported ERISA class action
  • Advising corporate clients on day-to-day governmental ethics, lobbying, and pay to play issues arising from business activities with governmental entities at the federal, state and municipal level
  • Advising individuals with respect to appointments to major federal agencies
  • Representing nonprofit institution in complex software implementation dispute
  • Representing nonprofit institutions in pro bono voting rights litigation
  • Representing a pro bono client in applying for expedited reinstatement of Social Security Disability benefits
  • Representing a pro bono client in a landlord-tenant dispute

Professional Activities

Extern, Honorable Chester Straub, U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit
Author, “Forget What You Learned in Civics Class: The ‘Enrolled Bill Rule’ and Why It’s Time to Overrule Field v. Clark,” 41 Colum. J.L. & Soc. Probs. 213 (2007)

Columbia University, J.D.; Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar; James Kent Scholar; Articles Editor, Colum. J.L. & Soc. Probs.

Yale University, B.A., Ethics, Politics, and Economics: cum laude; with distinction in major


New York; District of Columbia