Jeffrey Sandberg is a senior member of the Appellate and Supreme Court Practice Group who represents clients in high-stakes appellate and complex civil matters across a range of subject areas, including speech and social media, intellectual property, administrative law, tort litigation, and the False Claims Act. Drawing on deep experience in both federal and state court, Jeff counsels the firm’s major clients on appellate strategy, crafts persuasive briefs and dispositive motions, and delivers compelling oral arguments.
Prior to joining the firm, Jeff served as an Attorney with the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), Civil Division, Appellate Staff. In this role, he served as principal author of more than a hundred briefs in the federal courts of appeals across a broad range of statutory and constitutional matters, with particular focus on litigation under the Administrative Procedure Act (APA). He also worked extensively with the Office of the Solicitor General, the Federal Programs Branch, and other DOJ components to prepare 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.
Between 2017 and 2018, Jeff 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 and argued one case in the U.S. Supreme Court, resulting in a favorable 9-0 ruling for the government’s position.
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