David McNamee
Top rated Employment & Labor attorney in Nashville, Tennessee
Sanford Heisler Sharp McKnight, LLP
Practice areas: Employment & Labor, Employment Litigation; view more
Licensed in Tennessee since: 2020
Education: Yale Law School
Selected to Rising Stars: 2023 - 2025 Call today:
615-245-6960
Sanford Heisler Sharp McKnight, LLP
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Committed to standing by his clients throughout the process of their litigation journey, David McNamee is an Associate in the Nashville office of Sanford Heisler Sharp McKnight, LLP Mr. McNamee's practice is focused on employment discrimination and financial services litigation matters including 401(k) mismanagement lawsuits filed under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act ("ERISA").
Mr. McNamee is admitted to practice in both New York and Tennessee.
He earned his undergraduate degree magna cum laude in 2007 from Brown University, where he was presented with the Philo Sherman Bennett and Ratcliffe Hicks prizes. He then attended Yale Law School, where he served as an essays editor at The Yale Law Journal. He graduated with his J.D. in 2013 and went on to receive a doctorate degree in politics from Princeton University in 2020.
During his studies, Mr. McNamee worked as a program associate for New America and after law school completed a clerkship at the Tennessee Supreme Court, where he served for the Honorable Justice Sharon G. Lee.
Mr. McNamee has authored and co-authored articles for the Texas Law Review, the Indiana Law Review and the Massachusetts Law Review. In addition, he often attends conferences to present on trending topics related to his area of practice and other constitutional issues. He is a member of the American Bar Association and the Tennessee Bar Association.
Practice areas
Employment & Labor: Employee, Employment Litigation: PlaintiffFocus areas
Employment Discrimination
- 60% Employment & Labor: Employee
- 40% Employment Litigation: Plaintiff
First Admitted: 2017, New York
Professional Webpage: https://www.sanfordheisler.com/team/david-mcnamee/
Bar / Professional Activity
- New York, 2016
- Tennessee, 2019
- American Bar Association
- Tennessee Bar Association
Verdicts / Settlements (Case Results)
- In Re: GE ERISA (case: 1:17-cv-12123-IT) Mr. McNamee was so-counsel on this lawsuit originally filed by Sanford Heisler Sharp in 2017 before being moved to Massachusetts federal court as a multi-district litigation. On March 7, 2024, the Court granted final approval of a record $61 million settlement, the largest-ever settlement of a case brought under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act ("ERISA") alleging that a company failed to offer any alternative investments to the company’s own proprietary, under-performing mutual funds. , 2024
Representative Clients
- Synder, et al. v. UnitedHealth Group (case: 0:21-CV-01049 (JRT/BRT) Mr. McNamee is co-counsel for the plaintiffs, a class of some 150,000 individuals, who were invested in the Wells Fargo Target Fund Suite through the UnitedHealth Group 401(k) Savings Plan. The class action lawsuit, brought under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act ("ERISA"), alleges that UnitedHealth Group failed to remove a chronically under-performing Wells Fargo Target Fund Suite from the employees' 401(k) plan, and that UnitedHealth Group's Chief Financial Officer and executive leadership personally intervened to keep the funds because Wells Fargo is an important financial backer. These actions, the Complaint alleges, have cost employees millions of dollars in retirement benefits. The class was certified in 2022, and the matter is proceeding to trial. , 2023
Educational Background
- Brown University, A.B., magna cum laude, Honors: Phi Beta Kappa, Philo Sherman Bennett Prize, Radcliffe Hickes Prize, 2006
- Princeton University, Ph.D., Politics, 2020
Scholarly Lectures / Writings
- Fundamental Law, Fundamental Rights, and Constitutional Time (accepted at Indiana Law Review)
- Sovereign and State: A Democratic Theory of Sovereign Immunity, 93 Texas L. Rev. 1229 (2015) (with Corey Brettschneider)
- Black Lives Matter” as a Claim of Fundamental Law, 14 U. Mass. L. Rev. 2 (2019)
Honors
- Essays Editor, Yale Law Journal
Office location for David McNamee
611 Commerce Street
Suite 3100
Nashville, TN 37203
Phone: 615-245-6960
Selections
- Rising Stars: 2023 - 2025
