Sandra Grannum

Sandra Dawn Grannum is a Partner in the Litigation Group at Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP where she is co-chair of the Commercial Litigation Team and is a Managing Partner of the Firm. She concentrates her practice on securities and employment broker-dealer arbitration, litigation, mediation and regulatory defense and leads the Drinker Biddle broker-dealer practice group. Sandy has written and lectured widely on securities and ethics issues. She was one of 13 individuals on the FINRA Dispute Resolution Task Force. FINRA impaneled this group to collaborate and suggest strategies to enhance the transparency, impartiality, and efficiency of FINRA's securities dispute resolution forum for all participants. On December 16, 2015, the task force issued its recommendations detailed in the Final Report and Recommendations of the FINRA Dispute Resolution Task Force. Sandy earned her law degree from Harvard Law School and her bachelor's degree from New York University. She began her career as a litigation associate at the New York law firm of Cravath, Swaine & Moore before moving to Tenzer Greenblatt to practice securities litigation. Sandy moved in-house to be an Associate General Counsel handling securities litigation at PaineWebber (now UBS Financial Services) in 1997. In November 2001, she became Senior Vice President and Senior Associate General Counsel in PaineWebber/UBS's Employment Law Unit. In 2003, she formed her own firm, Davidson & Grannum, with a former PaineWebber/UBS colleague. She joined Drinker in January 2016.