Ms. Sheldon is a general civil litigator with particular expertise litigating false advertising disputes. She has spent her entire legal career at Kramer Levin and has worked on a broad range of matters in addition to false advertising, including trademark, trade secret and counterfeiting cases, securities fraud class actions, regulatory and internal investigations, bankruptcy litigation, insurance coverage disputes, employment and labor litigation, and complex commercial contract disputes of all shapes and sizes on behalf of both individuals and corporations. She has represented companies including AstraZeneca, Johnson & Johnson (and its subsidiary McNeil-PPC), Procter & Gamble, Liz Claiborne, Bear Stearns, Citigroup, Credit Suisse First Boston, Lehman Brothers, Société Générale, Mobius Management Systems, and Vishay Intertechnology, at trial and on appeal, and in arbitrations and mediations. Ms. Sheldon has also represented individual directors and officers and board committees in connection with securities fraud suits and regulatory and internal investigations.

Representative Matters

• Successfully represented McNeil-PPC, Inc. (a subsidiary of Johnson & Johnson) in a Lanham Act suit to enjoin Pfizer, Inc from disseminating false ads claiming that Listerine is “as effective as floss.” See McNeil-PPC, Inc. v. Pfizer, Inc., 351 F. Supp. 2d 226 (S.D.N.Y. 2005).
• Member of litigation/bankruptcy team that successfully represented a consortium of lenders in the Owens Corning asbestos bankruptcy in a federal court action in which competing creditors sought to set aside multi-billion dollar guarantees issued by the bank group to subsidiaries of the debtor.
• Successfully represented AstraZeneca in a Lanham Act suit to enjoin Eli Lilly from making false efficacy claims concerning Lilly’s osteoporosis drug, Evista, and Zeneca’s breast cancer drug, Nolvadex. See Zeneca Inc. v. Eli Lilly and Co., 1999 WL 509471 (S.D.N.Y. July 19, 1999).
• Successfully defended Liz Claiborne in a series of interrelated disputes involving a former garment contractor and UNITE (the international garment workers union), that resulted in a union arbitration and three major litigations in federal court.

Ms. Sheldon is an active member of the Women in the Profession Committee of the New York City Bar Association. She also formed, and currently chairs, the Women’s Initiative Advisory Committee at the firm.

J.D., Harvard Law School, 1993
M.A., Columbia University, 1987
B.A., summa cum laude, University of Pennsylvania, 1986

U.S. District Court, Eastern District of New York, 1994
U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York, 1994
New York Court of Appeals

New York City Bar Association (Member, Committee on Women in the Profession; Chair, Subcommittee on Re-Entry and Career Transition; Member, Subcommittee on Women and Leadership)
American Bar Association
National Association of Women Lawyers
Harvard Law School Association of New York City