Philip A. Sandick

• Member of the class action defense team for Porsche Cars North America Inc. and Porsche AG in multidistrict litigation in San Francisco in the Volkswagen “Clean Diesel” MDL.
• Member of the national trial counsel team for a Fortune 500 automotive parts supplier in asbestos litigation.
• Represented an interstate natural gas pipeline company in state and federal court in the expansion of its capacity, which necessitated dozens of Natural Gas Act condemnation actions.
• Defended an aerosol manufacturing company and its corporate parent in lawsuits alleging property damage and personal injury arising out of a chemical spill that entered an urban water feature near the client’s facility.
• Represented an educational institution across multiple campuses in various land use issues, including on-campus easement sales and off-campus easement acquisitions.
• Advised a manufacturer of diatomaceous earth products on federal and state labelling requirements related to silica.
• Advised a construction and commercial equipment manufacturer on Clean Air Act evaporative emissions defect reporting.
• Conducted due diligence for buyers and sellers in multiple real estate transactions involving more than 100 properties across the country.
• Conducted and coordinated global due diligence among international and local counsel in 10 jurisdictions for a Fortune 50 company in a hazardous materials service expansion.
• Removed a state tort suit to federal court based on substantial federal question jurisdiction and thereafter won a dismissal.
• Obtained dismissals of multiple asbestos suits based on personal jurisdiction.
  
  

Phil Sandick is an attorney in Alston & Bird’s Environment, Land Use & Natural Resources Group. He focuses his practice on the intersection of regulatory compliance and complex litigation.

Before joining Alston & Bird, Phil served as a law clerk to the Honorable Amy Totenberg in the Northern District of Georgia. He earned his J.D., graduating cum laude, and LL.M., graduating with honors, in international human rights from Northwestern University School of Law, where he was a judicial extern for the Honorable Morton Denlow in the Northern District of Illinois, a research assistant to Ambassador David Scheffer, the editor-in-chief of the Northwestern Journal of International Human Rights, an extern with the International Criminal Court in The Hague, and a participant in the United Nations Open Working Group on Sustainable Development Goals.

Phil earned both his M.A. in oral history and his B.A. in sociology, psychology, and philosophy from Columbia University. He is actively involved in the community as a member of the Access to Justice Committee of the State Bar of Georgia and an adviser to students at local law schools. Phil is also a conceptual photographer and mixed-media artist whose works can be found in public and private collections in the U.S. and abroad. 

Bar Admissions

• Georgia

Education

• Northwestern University (J.D., 2014)
• Northwestern University (LL.M., 2014)
• Columbia University (M.A., 2009)
• Columbia University (B.A., 2005)

Memberships