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Published on: 4/6/2008
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Jeremy HeislerSanford Wittels & Heisler, LLP
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Jeremy Heisler
Sanford Wittels & Heisler, LLP 950 Third Avenue10th FloorNew York, NY 10022
Phone: (646) 723-2947Fax: (646) 723-2948
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Jeremy Heisler is a founding partner of the New York City office of Sanford Wittels & Heisler, LLP.Throughout the twenty-five year span of his legal career, Mr. Heisler has had notable success in class actions and complex multi-party and multi-state litigation, producing nearly $100 million in benefits to class members.In addition, Mr. Heisler has established leading employment-law precedents, including the expansion of the rights of wrongfully discharged employees.Mr. Heisler has also prevailed in novel and groundbreaking litigation against the largest defense law firms in the nation.Mr. Heisler's participation and guidance assure class members and clients of first rate representation and aggressive advocacy in the finest traditions of the law.
Mr. Heisler is a magna cum laude graduate of Brooklyn Law School.He finished fifth in a class of 314 and served as senior editor of the law review.Following graduation from law school, Mr. Heisler served as an appellate law assistant for the Appellate Term in Manhattan, where he drafted bench memoranda and judicial opinions for the justices on appeals ranging from constitutional law actions and criminal prosecutions to multi-million dollar real estate litigation.
After completing his tenure at the Appellate Term, Mr. Heisler joined Milberg, Weiss, Bershad, Specthrie & Lerach, the nation's preeminent class action law firm.At Milberg, Weiss, Mr. Heisler handled and obtained excellent results for a wide variety of class actions and derivative suits.
In 1991, Mr. Heisler formed his own law firm and litigated a number of landmark cases on behalf of plaintiffs, including Graham v. City of New York , 2 A.D.3d 678 (2d Dept. 2003), a police brutality case which produced a judgment of nearly $500,000 after two trials and five appeals.
Mr. Heisler has worked with Steven L. Wittels from 1997 to 2003 and has successfully prosecuted many significant class actions, including:
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Mr. Heisler's recent successes build upon a twenty-year history of achieving excellent results in a variety of class actions and derivative suits.
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Mr. Heisler has also been involved in breakthrough precedents on employment law and complex civil litigation matters:
Murphy v. American Home Products, Inc., New York Court of Appeals (groundbreaking employment litigation with leading national decisions on the employment-at-will doctrine, right to jury-trial and statutes of limitations in age discrimination suits); Metropolitan Transportation Authority v. Bruken Realty Corp., New York Court of Appeals (major decision on the application of the rule against perpetuities in commercial transactions); and American Re-Insurance Co. v. SGB Universal Builders Supply, Inc., New York Supreme Court, New York County (major precedent on "drop-down" principles applicable to excess-insurance disputes).
Mr. Heisler is admitted to the New York State Bar (1980); the Eastern District of New York (1980); the Southern District of New York (1981); and the Second Circuit (1984).He is a member of the American Bar Association and the New York County Lawyers Association.He actively litigates in both New York state and federal courts.