Joseph Sanderson

Securities & Stockholder Litigation

• Defending multinational software and technology business from claims under Section 11 of the Securities Act of 1933 in California state court and parallel federal proceedings arising out of multi-billion dollar merger.
• Defending Israeli technology company from securities fraud claims.
• Defending leading hedge fund from claims of securities law violations arising out of a hostile takeover bid.
• Representing leading trucking company in stockholder derivative litigation in Delaware Chancery Court.
• Defending publicly-traded company against stockholder derivative lawsuit concerning its cybersecurity practices in New York Commercial Division.
• Representing restaurant chain in books-and-records litigation in Delaware Chancery Court

Investment Funds Disputes

• Representing private equity executive and founder of new fund in arbitration with his prior firm.
• Representing multiple investment funds in disputes with departing executives.

Mass Tort

• Defending large oil company in litigation arising from response to major oil spill.
• Representing agricultural technology company in complex state and federal litigation relating to claims of trade disruptions related to GMO product.

Consumer Class Actions

• Defending a major pharmaceutical company against claims based on several states’ unfair and deceptive acts and practices statutes.
• Defending maker of Stonefire Authentic Naan in false advertising litigation concerning the characteristics of its baking process.
• Defending medical records technology company against challenges to its billing practices in Wisconsin, Georgia, New Jersey, Texas, and Tennessee.

Complex Commercial Litigation

• Representing telecoms company in covenant compliance dispute with indenture trustee and hedge fund noteholder.
• Representing major Taiwanese bank in dispute regarding enforcement of multi-million dollar judgments and post-judgment discovery.
• Advising Fortune 100 company on pre-judgment attachment in aid of international arbitration claims.
• Representing Medicaid managed care organization in bringing antitrust claims to challenge price-fixing conspiracy among majority of physicians in rural area.

FTC & SEC Enforcement

• Defending identity theft protection company against FTC claims related to advertising and data security.
• Defending CFO and Controller of publicly-traded company in SEC investigation, successfully convincing the SEC not to pursue enforcement action.
• Defending payments company in FTC investigation and affirmative declaratory judgment claims.

Trade Secrets & Technology Litigation

• Representing technology company in disputes arising out of its acquisition of mobile application provider.
• Representing technology start-up founder in dispute arising from merger and termination.

International Arbitration & Dispute Resolution

• Represent investors in defunct bank in international arbitration and related Section 1782 proceedings, resulting in Second Circuit opinion broadening scope of Section 1782 discovery.
• Advising payments company on dispute with Spanish bank.
• Advising public pension fund on multi-jurisdictional enforcement efforts for nine-figure arbitration award.

Summer Associate, Kirkland & Ellis LLP, Los Angeles, CA, Summer 2014

Ford Foundation Summer Public Interest Fellow, Boston, MA, Summer 2013

Summer Intern, Reprieve, Death Penalty Team, London, UK, Summer 2011

Representing eleven civil rights organizations as amici curiae in a case before the New York Appellate Division, First Department, in support of a broad reading of New York City’s Gender-Motivated Violence Act.

Representing indigent litigant in winning landmark California Supreme Court decision recognizing duty of trial courts to provide court reporters for indigent litigants so that they can have meaningful appellate review. Jameson v. Desta, No. S230899, __ Cal. 4th __ (July 5, 2018).

Representing immigration and constitutional law professors as amici curiae in litigation challenging separation of children from their parents at the border. Ms. L. v. U.S. Immigration & Customs Enforcement, No. 18cv0428 DMS (MDD).

Representing immigrant advocacy organizations as amici curiae in litigation challenging retaliation by immigration enforcement authorities against immigrant rights advocates.

Representing ACLU of North Carolina as amicus curiae before the North Carolina Supreme Court in case challenging arrest based on expressive conduct.

Representing historian in defending against defamation claims brought by self-described “Holocaust revisionist” who claimed that it was defamatory to describe him as “anti-semitic” or “Holocaust denier.”

Representing wage theft victim in enforcing New York State Department of Labor judgment against his employer.

Representing a Nevada inmate in an appeal to the Ninth Circuit in religious liberty case under RLUIPA.

Representing immigrant victim of crime in obtaining legal status after extended processing delays through threat of litigation.

As member of law school clinic, litigated high-profile lawsuit against the State of Connecticut for providing an inadequate educational system in impoverished school districts and for adopting an inequitable school funding system.