Sandler is a surname derived from Hebrew "Sandlar" —"sandal-maker", i.e. shoemaker—which passed over to Yiddish with the same meaning. Thus, persons having this name are likely to have had a shoemaker among their ancestors, though it might be many generations in the past. A more rare variant is Sendler. Holders of the name include:
A personal injury lawyer is a lawyer who provides legal services to those who claim to have been injured, physically or psychologically, as a result of the negligence of another person, company, government agency or any entity. Personal injury lawyers primarily practice in the area of law known as tort law. Examples of common personal injury claims include injuries from slip and fall accidents, traffic collisions, defective products, workplace injuries and professional malpractice.
Lowenstein Sandler is an AmLaw 200 corporate law firm with offices in New York, Palo Alto, New Jersey, Utah, and Washington, D.C. In 2019, the National Law Journal ranked Lowenstein 145th in the United States based on size. The firm placed 107th on The American Lawyer's 2020 Am Law 200 ranking. On the 2019 Global 200 survey, Lowenstein Sandler ranked as the 151st highest grossing law firm in the world. The firm has approximately 350 attorneys and has been described as "well connected" politically. Former partners have been appointed to important positions in state government.
Ronald M. Shapiro is an American attorney, sports agent, author, negotiator, educator, speaker, and civic leader.
Richard C. Waites, J.D., Ph.D.,, a noted board certified trial attorney and social psychologist, is an internationally recognized expert in jury and courtroom decision maker research, a field he helped to develop and that he continues to advance.
Clifford A. Wolff is a litigation attorney based in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, United States.
Charles Hernan Carreon is an American trial attorney best known for his involvement in a legal dispute between The Oatmeal webcomic and content aggregator FunnyJunk. He currently represents individuals and companies in matters pertaining to Internet law.
Samuel J. Dubbin is an American lawyer, public servant, and Holocaust Survivors' rights advocate. He is a principal in the law firm Dubbin & Kravetz, L.L.P., a former shareholder in the law firm Greenberg Traurig, and a former partner with Steel Hector & Davis. A Clinton Administration appointee, he served in the Department of Justice and Department of Transportation. He has received a Martindale-Hubbell Peer Review Rating of AV and is included in the Bar Register of Preeminent Lawyers.
Michael R. Fontham is a legal author, a law professor, and a practicing attorney and partner at the Stone Pigman law firm. He is the author of Trial Technique and Evidence and the lead author of Persuasive Written and Oral Advocacy: In Trial and Appellate Courts. He currently teaches as an adjunct professor of law at the Tulane University Law School and the Louisiana State University Schools of Law, and previously served as a visiting professor at the University of Virginia School of Law (1982–83). He served as an attorney to the late John G. Schwegmann, a pioneer in the development of the modern supermarket.
Allen, Allen, Allen & Allen is a United States law firm based in Richmond, Virginia. Founded in 1910 in Lunenburg County, Virginia the firm now has 32 attorneys and more than 130 staff employees in 8 offices in Virginia. They have offices in Richmond, Chesterfield, Mechanicsville, Petersburg, Stafford, Fredericksburg, Charlottesville and Short Pump.
Verrill Dana, LLP is a leading New England regional law firm. It has offices in Portland, Maine, Augusta, Maine, Boston, Massachusetts, Westport, Connecticut, Providence, Rhode Island, and Washington D.C.
Frank E. Sheeder III is an American lawyer in health care enforcement, compliance, and healthcare fraud, waste and abuse litigation.
Adam Fredric Streisand is an American trial attorney notable for his involvement in high-profile litigation with regard to private wealth disputes: "Adam Streisand is widely regarded as one of the nation's top trial attorneys, particularly in high profile litigation involving private wealth disputes, fiduciary litigation, business succession and partnership disputes and litigation involving trusts, estates and conservatorships." He is credited with "rescuing" both NBA franchises in Los Angeles, having represented former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer at trial against Donald Sterling over the Los Angeles Clippers, and Jeanie Buss in litigation over control of the Los Angeles Lakers. Streisand is repeatedly named one of the top trial lawyers in the U.S. and in California, and one of the most influential people in Los Angeles, for these and many other victories in battles over the estates of the rich and famous, including Michael Jackson, Tom Petty, Hugh Hefner, Muhammad Ali, Ray Charles, Marilyn Monroe, Marlon Brando, Douglas Tompkins, Barry White, Dennis Hopper, Michael Crichton, Anna Nicole Smith, Rodney Dangerfield, Rock Hudson, Joey Bishop, Bing Crosby, Gore Vidal, Carroll Shelby, Alan Thicke,, Terry Semel Allen Paulson and others.
Mark Matthew O'Mara is an American criminal defense lawyer in Orlando, Florida, known for being the attorney for George Zimmerman. He is a former prosecutor.
Stephen Daily Susman was an American commercial plaintiffs attorney and founding and name partner of Susman Godfrey LLP. He won more than $2 billion in damages and settlements in just three cases, including a $1.1 billion settlement on behalf of Texas Instruments in Samsung Electronics v. Texas Instruments, and a $536 million jury verdict in El Paso Natural Gas Co. v. GHR Energy Corp. In 2020, he contracted COVID-19 and died.
Thomas M. Melsheimer is a trial lawyer and managing partner of Winston & Strawn LLP's Dallas office. As a student at The University of Texas School of Law in Austin, where he graduated magna cum laude in 1986, he served as a member of the Texas Law Review and was selected to Chancellors, the top honor society at the UT School of Law. Following law school, Melsheimer served as a clerk for the Hon. Homer Thornberry at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit.
Karl Anthony Racine is a Haitian-born American lawyer and politician. He is the first independently elected attorney general of the District of Columbia, a position he has held since January 2015. Before that, he was the managing partner of Venable LLP.
JoAnne A. Epps is an American law professor, legal author, and Executive Vice President and Provost of Temple University. Epps' primary areas of expertise include criminal procedure, evidence and trial advocacy. She teaches Litigation Basics, a required course for first-year law students at Temple. Named by National Jurist as one of the 25 most influential leaders in legal education, her commitment to curricular innovation and experiential legal education inspired the creation of the Stephen and Sandra Sheller Center for Social Justice at Temple Law School, which introduces students to the many roles that lawyers can play in securing access to civil justice. Her students have included lawyers from China, Bosnia and Japan. She has trained Sudanese lawyers representing victims of the Darfur crisis, and taught prosecutors for the UN International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda. She has been named as a potential Barack Obama Supreme Court candidate. Before becoming Temple's Provost, she served as Dean of Temple University Beasley School of Law from 2008-2016. Epps joined the Temple Law School as a faculty member in 1985 and then served as associate dean for Academic Affairs from 1989 to 2008. Prior to coming to Temple, Epps was an Assistant U.S. Attorney in Philadelphia and a Deputy City Attorney for the City of Los Angeles. Epps received a B.A. from Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut, and a J.D. from Yale Law School.
Ervin A. Gonzalez was an American civil trial attorney whose practice focused on wrongful death, personal injury, medical negligence, product liability and class action torts. He was born in Miami, Florida. He was a shareholder with the law firm Colson Hicks Eidson in the firm's Coral Gables office, and he has been featured in reports about his cases in USA Today, The Washington Post, The Christian Science Monitor, The American Lawyer, Associated Press, CBS News, National Public Radio (NPR), ProPublica, The Miami Herald, Daily Business Review, The Palm Beach Post, WTVJ-NBC6 South Florida, CBSMiami, WPLG-TV ABC Channel 10, and many others.
Edgar N. Romano is an American lawyer. He is the managing senior partner at the New York City law firm Pasternack Tilker Ziegler Walsh Stanton & Romano, LLP, which concentrates on cases involving workers’ compensation, personal injury and Social Security Disability.
