David Sanford is the Chairman and Co-Founder of Sanford Heisler Sharp McKnight, a national civil rights and public interest law firm. With over 20 years of experience, he specializes in employment discrimination, wage and hour violations, and whistleblower/qui tam litigation. He is best known for securing a 253 million dollar jury verdict in Velez v. Novartis, the largest gender discrimination verdict in U.S. history. Sanford earned his J.D. from Stanford Law School in 1995 and previously served as a professor of philosophy.