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)