Jeffrey Sandberg is a member of the Appellate and Supreme Court and Government Litigation Practice Groups who leverages his 14 years of experience at the U.S. Department of Justice to represent and counsel clients in significant appellate matters and complex civil litigation.
Prior to joining the firm, Jeffrey served as an Attorney with the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), Civil Division, Appellate Staff. In this role, he serve as principal author of more than a hundred briefs in the federal courts of appeals on behalf of nearly all federal agencies across a broad range of matters, including in cases involving the Administrative Procedure Act (APA), False Claims Act, Federal Advisory Committee Act, Federal Tort Claims Act, Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act, Freedom of Information Act, and various constitutional matters (including the Bankruptcy, Equal Protection, and Takings Clauses as well as federalism, preemption, and the separation of powers). He also worked extensively with the Office of the Solicitor General, the Federal Programs Branch, the Executive Office of U.S. Trustees, and other DOJ components to prepare other filings in the Supreme Court, federal district courts, and bankruptcy courts nationwide. He has argued nearly 50 cases across all thirteen federal courts of appeals, including the en banc Ninth Circuit, as well as one state supreme court.
In addition to his litigating role, Jeffrey also routinely advised federal agencies on pre-litigation strategy, litigation risk, and implementation of judicial decisions. He frequently represented the government in mediation, achieving settlement of many APA programmatic disputes. He also led widely attended trainings on APA judicial review and rulemaking procedures, statutory interpretation, and legal writing, and provided substantive legal briefings to White House advisers, agency counsel and program staff, and DOJ attorneys in support of high-priority policy initiatives.
Between 2017 and 2018, Jeffrey served on detail in the Office of the Solicitor General as an Assistant to the Solicitor General, where he authored dozens of Supreme Court briefs, including in merits cases involving the Endangered Species Act, Voting Rights Act, and Bankruptcy Code. He argued one case in the U.S. Supreme Court, resulting in a favorable 9-0 ruling for the government’s position.
Jeffrey is a member of the New York Bar. His District of Columbia Bar membership application is pending and is currently supervised by DC principals of the firm.
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