Trial attorney, problem solver, and strategic advisor, Sheldon represents clients in complex and often high-profile business disputes and tort cases. He helps clients efficiently resolve matters inside and outside the courtroom. Sheldon regularly counsels financial institutions, medical providers, municipalities, commercial property owners/developers, and manufacturers.
Commercial and Tort-Defense Litigation
Sheldon represents buyers and sellers in disputes involving the domestic and international sales of goods. He also counsels businesses on matters involving competition claims, force majeure and other contract performance disputes, tort defenses, earn-out/buy-out and valuation disputes, and trade secret and trademark protection. In addition, he handles a variety of matters for banks, including check disputes, fiduciary duty claims, and fraud allegations.
Tax Assessment and Condemnation
Sheldon handles high-stakes tax assessment challenges and related real property valuation disputes.
Health Care Litigation
Sheldon represents a wide range of health care providers (including hospitals, medical associations, nursing homes, physicians, dentists, physical therapists, and DME companies) regarding the many types of business, reimbursement, privacy, tort-defense, and real property disputes that arise in the health care arena.
PROFESSIONAL & CIVIC AFFILIATIONS
- Board of Trustees, Upstate New York Chapter, National MS Society
- Member, National Bar Association, Commercial Law Section
- Appointed Member, Attorney Advisory Group to the New York Federal and State Judicial Council
- Member and Past President, Minority Bar Association of Western New York
- Member, Rochester Black Bar Association
- Board of Directors, National Federation for Just Communities
- Former Member, Board of Directors, Catholic Health System
- Former Member, Board of Directors, UB Law Alumni Association
- Former Member, Board of Directors, Western New York Defense Trial Lawyers Association
- Former Appointed Member, Attorney Grievance Committee, Fourth Department, Eighth Judicial District
- Former Board Member and 2nd Vice Chair, Meals on Wheels for WNY
HONORS & AWARDS
- Recognized by Chambers USA from 2017-2020 in the field of Litigation
- Selected to The National Black Lawyers Top 100 in New York
- Legal Elite of Western New York, Buffalo Business First/Buffalo Law Journal, 2018
- Selected to the Upstate New York Super Lawyers list 2017-2020
- Named by The Daily Record as one of Rochester’s Attorneys of the Year, 2014
- Recognized by New York Law Journal as a “Rising Star,” 2013
- Recipient of the “Legal Service Award,” by the Minority Bar Association of Western New York, 2012
- Recipient of the “Pro Bono Service Award” by the Western District of New York Federal Court, 2012
- Recipient of the “Diversity Leadership Award” by the New York State Bar Association, Commercial and Federal Litigation Section, 2012
PRACTICE AREAS
ADMISSIONS
- New York
- U.S. District Court for the Eastern, Western, Northern, and Southern Districts of New York
- U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Western District of New York
EDUCATION
- University at Buffalo School of Law, J.D., magna cum laude
- SUNY Buffalo, B.S., with distinction
