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Ken Sansom is an experienced litigator who has helped Fortune 100, Fortune 500, and other clients achieve a variety of strategic results, including victory in court, vindication of important legal principles, effective in-house and external management and coordination, avoidance of repeat litigation, cost control, and a variety of other litigation objectives tailored to their competitive strategy. Sansom has achieved these results in venues throughout the country, including several of the most challenging.

Sansom has substantial experience in commercial and labor-and-employment class actions, state and federal appeals, and corporate investigations. His litigation experience also encompasses issues as diverse as business torts, employment discrimination, employment benefits, corporate taxation, intellectual property, financial services regulation, and transportation industry regulation.

Sansom has achieved the dismissal of significant class actions in multiple states and the establishment of important precedent in areas such as state-court venue principles and federal preemption. He has successfully petitioned the U.S. Supreme Court for writ of certiorari. He has filed amicus briefs with various federal courts of appeal and the U.S. Supreme Court on behalf of industry groups. Sansom has also advised companies on how to strategically modify their contracts to better anticipate the litigation environment.

Published Works:

• Robert K. Spotswood and Kenneth D. Sansom, Who May Speak for the King? Challenging Common Assumptions about Representing the Government in Class Action, Class Action Litigation Report, Vol. 5, No. 15, page 549.
    
• Note, Sharing the Burden: Exploring the Space Between Uniform and Specific Applicability in Current Free Exercise Jurisprudence, 77 Texas L. Rev. 753 (1999).