Jeremy Heisler - New York, NY
Attorney at Sanford Heisler Sharp McKnight, LLP
Lawyers in New York, NY
17 State Street Suite 3700 New York, NY 10004
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46
Years
Experience
Updated: 03/10/2026
Attorney Information
Overview
Jeremy Heisler is a Founding Partner of Sanford Heisler Sharp McKnight, LLP, a national law firm with offices in Washington, D.C., New York, and California. He received his law degree from Brooklyn Law School in 1979.
Throughout his twenty-five year 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 recent successes build upon a twenty-five year history of achieving excellent results in a variety of class actions and derivative suits, including Weinreich v. State-Wide Insurance Co., (New York Court of Appeals), a class action on behalf of more than 10,000 claimants which resulted in settlement of over $15 million. He has also been involved in breakthrough precedents on employment law and complex civil litigation matters, including Murphy v. American Home Products, Inc., a groundbreaking series of employment litigation decisions on the employment-at-will doctrine, right to jury-trial and statutes of limitations in age discrimination suits.
Before founding SWH in January 2004, Mr. Heisler formed his own law firm in 1991, 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. He has also worked with fellow founding partner, Steven L. Wittels from 1997 to 2003, and successfully prosecuted many significant class actions, including (1) Nasoff v. G.E. Capital, et al., a settlement which obtained benefits totaling $19.2 million for over 400,000 consumers who leased vehicles from G.E. Capital and were overcharged on late fees; and (2) Greenberger v. Copelco Leasing Corp., a $15 million settlement for class of defrauded equipment lease consumers.
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.
Awards and Honors
Honors
- Benchmark Litigation Labor & Employment Star – Northeast in the practice area of Labor & Employment, 2018 - 2021
- New York Metro Super Lawyer, 2020 - 2021
- Lawdragon 500 Plaintiff Employment Lawyer, 2019 - 2021
Other Sources of Feedback About Jeremy Heisler
Included on the 2026 New York Metro Super Lawyers list
Past Lists
- 2025 New York Metro Super Lawyers list
- 2024 New York Metro Super Lawyers list
- 2023 New York Metro Super Lawyers list
- 2022 New York Metro Super Lawyers list
- 2021 New York Metro Super Lawyers list
- 2020 New York Metro Super Lawyers list
Education
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Legal Education
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Brooklyn Law School,
Brooklyn,
New York
J.D.
Honors: magna cum laude
Honors: Fifth in Class of 314
Law Review: Brooklyn Law Review, Senior Editor, 1977 - 1979
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Brooklyn Law School,
Brooklyn,
New York
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Non Legal Education
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Brooklyn College,
Brooklyn,
NY
B.A.
Honors: cum laude
Major: History
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Brooklyn College,
Brooklyn,
NY
Current Employment Position(s)
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Co-Vice Chairman
Past Positions
- Milberg, Weiss, Bershad, Specthrie & Lerach, Associate, 1981 - 1987
- Killarney, Rein, Brody & Fabiani, 1987 - 1991
- Appellate Term in Manhattan, Appellate Law Assistant
- Appellate Term, First Department, Law Clerk, 1980 - 1981
Representative Cases
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Kings Choice v. DHL Airways, Inc.
- Citation: 2003WL 222 P.3d 814
- Court: S.D.N.Y.
- Year: 2003
- Serial Number: 2003677908
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Graham v. City of New York
- Citation: 2 A.D.3d 678
- Court: 2d Dept.
- Year: 2003
- Serial Number: 2003944619
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Nasoff v. G.E. Capital, et al.
- Court: Supreme Court, New York County
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Greenberger v. Citicorp Vendor Finance, Inc.
- Court: Superior Court Bergen County
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Northern Valley E.N.T. v Marlin Leasing
- Court: Superior Court Burlington County
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The Matthews Group, Inc. v. Studebaker-Worthington
- Court: Supreme Court, Nassau County
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Targovnik v. First Union Auto Finance
- Court: Superior Court Bergen County
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Zukowsky v. Bank of America Auto Finance Corp.
- Court: United States District Court, Southern District of New York Court
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Weinreich v. State-Wide Insurance Co.
- Court: New York Supreme Court
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Goldman v. Belden
- Court: Western District of New York
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Michaels v. Ambassador Group, Inc.
- Court: Eastern District of New York
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Traub v. Barber
- Court: New York Supreme Court
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Laughlin and Chezar v. The Dime Savings Bank of New York
- Court: Supreme Court Kings County
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Hasan v. Clevetrust Realty
- Court: District Court for the Northern District of Ohio
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Murphy v. American Home Products Corp.
- Citation: 58 NY2d 293
- Court: NY Cty. App.
- Year: 1983
- Serial Number: 1983120841
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Metropolitan Transportation Authority v. Bruken Realty Corp.
- Court: New York Court of Appeals
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American Re-Insurance Co. v. SGB Universal Builders Supply, Inc.
- Court: New York Supreme Court, New York County
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In re Gateway Plaza Residents Litigation
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Ian Jack Miller v. Zara USA, Inc. et al.
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Fabio Silva v. Giorgio Armani Corp., Et. Al.
Published Works
Articles
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Author, Williams v. Walsh, Tolling of Statutes of Limitations in Section 1983 Actions – Prior Resort to State Forums Will Not Stop the Clock
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Co-Author, States – The Final Frontier: How State Law and State Courts Can Provide Avenues for Justice and Resist the U.S. Supreme Court’s “Lochner Lite” Anti-Employee and Anti-Consumer Agenda
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A Practitioner’s Guide to Incentive Payments in Federal Employment Class and Collective Actions,which appeared in the February 2014 issue of Impact Fund: Strategic Litigation for Social Justice
Bar Admissions
- New York, 1980
- U.S. District Court Eastern District of New York, 1980
- U.S. District Court Southern District of New York, 1980
- U.S. Court of Appeals 2nd Circuit, 1984
Other Affiliations
- American Bar Association (Member)
- New York County Lawyers Association (Member)
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Contact
17 State Street
Suite 3700
New York, NY 10004
Phone: 646-512-8609
Fax: 646-402-5651
Email: Send a message
Website: https://sanfordheisler.com/
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