Practice Group(s): Discrimination and Harassment, Public Interest Litigation, Wage Theft and Overtime Violations
Jeremy Heisler, co‑founding partner and co‑vice chairman of Sanford Heisler Sharp, began his career in a major class action firm representing shareholders defrauded by corporations. His work helped pioneer 10b‑5 securities class actions on behalf of large groups of investors. A pivotal case—Murphy v. American Home Products—involving a whistleblower fired for exposing financial manipulation, solidified his commitment to representing individuals against powerful corporations. That experience shaped the firm’s mission: standing with the vulnerable, challenging corporate wrongdoing, and fighting on the side of what he believes is right.
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My name is Jeremy Heisler. I’m one of the co-founding partners of the firm, and I am co-vice chairman with Kevin Sharp. After, you know, college, I knew I wanted to be a lawyer. My first law firm was a big class action firm. We represented shareholders who had been defrauded by corporations. My old firm innovated what is called ten B five securities class
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actions, where we would sue on behalf of thousands, if not millions, of shareholders. During the course of my experience there, we ran into an employment case, Murphy versus American Home Products. A, uh, controller or high-level accountant at a, uh, big drug company, American Home Products, had discovered financial manipulations at his company, at American
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Home, that allowed top management to, uh, rig their bonuses. He complained and was fired. When Joe Murphy came to us, he was over sixty-five, unemployable after being fired, and he needed help. And, uh, I knew that I would rather be on the side of the little guy fighting a big corporation than being on
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the reverse of that situation. So I did have a history representing consumers and shareholders against big corporations before we formed the firm. So we were going to represent the weak against the powerful, and I think we’re on the side of right.
