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Practice Areas: Employment Discrimination; Employment Law; Management Labor Law; Title VII Discrimination; Union Elections

Additional Information: Sheldon Sandler began his legal career as a general litigator in a small firm and has been practicing labor and employment law since the early 1970s. In the late 1960s, he was the Executive Director of Delaware's neighborhood legal services program, then known as Community Law Service. During the 1970s, he pioneered the specialty of labor and employment law in Delaware and along with Barry Willoughby began Young Conaway's Employment Law Department in 1981.

Sheldon's prominence in the field has been recognized repeatedly. Chambers USA ranked him first in its ratings of Delaware Employment Lawyers representing Management, in each of its USA editions to date. In its 2007 study of "Management, Labour and Employment," Who's Who Legal, a UK publication, named him as 1 of 352 "experts in labour and employment law" internationally who "can truly be considered leaders in the field." He was again selected by Who's Who Legal for 2009 "as being among the world's pre-eminent Management Labour & Employment lawyers." He has also been listed in The Best Lawyers In America for over twenty-five years and in 2007, the first year that Delaware listings were published, he was named a "Delaware SuperLawyer."

At the 2004 American Bar Association Convention, Mr. Sandler became the first Delaware lawyer inducted as a Fellow of the College of Labor and Employment Lawyers. Election as a Fellow is described as "the highest recognition by one's colleagues of sustained outstanding performance in the profession, exemplifying integrity, dedication and excellence."

In the early 1970s, Sheldon co-founded the Brandywine Friends of Old Time Music, which has played a significant national role in preserving and presenting traditional American old-time and Bluegrass music. Sheldon taught himself to play clawhammer banjo as a respite from law school, and he has continued this avocation, most recently with a band called "Tater Patch" (www.tater-patch.com). Old-Time Music performed by Tater Patch is featured on a CD titled "Courthouse Blues: Music from the Delaware Bar."
Professional Memberships

American Bar Association, Labor & Employment Law Section: Committees - State & Local Government Bargaining & Employment Law; Employment Rights & Responsibilities; Litigation Section



Delaware State Bar Association - Past Officer; Founder and First Chairman, Labor & Employment Law Section



Past Member, Court of Chancery Rules Committee



Labor and Employment Relations Association, Philadelphia Chapter



Past Chair and Member, Third Circuit Lawyers Advisory Committee



Member and Past President, Delaware Chapter, Federal Bar Association
Activities

Former Board Member, Delaware Symphony Association
Co-founder and Board Member, Brandywine Friends of Old Time Music
Former Board Member, MBNA Foundation's Helen F. Graham Grants Program
Former Board Member, Family & Workplace Connection
Metropolitan Wilmington Urban League - 2004 Special Guests Planning Committee

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Firm Members: Edward Maxwell Josy Ingersoll Anthony Flynn Karen Keller Maribeth Minella