Leah Sandbank is an associate in the law firm of McManimon & Scotland, L.L.C. practicing in the different areas of public finance law and general and special counsel services. Ms. Sandbank has acted as bond counsel in numerous transactions involving State and local issuers, including the State of New Jersey, the New Jersey Sports and Exposition Authority, the New Jersey Economic Development Authority, the Higher Education Student Assistance Authority, the New Jersey Housing and Mortgage Finance Agency and the New Jersey Transportation Trust Fund Authority, as one of the primary firm contacts and has primary responsibility for preparing transaction documents and attending to transaction pre-closings and closings. In addition, Ms. Sandbank has represented various school districts, jointure commissions, municipalities, authorities and fire districts in connection with their bond financings and other financings for capital improvements including current and advance refundings, lease purchase transactions and investment contracts, and has represented various investment institutions in the position of underwriter’s counsel or special counsel.

While at Fordham University School of Law, Ms. Sandbank was Senior Articles Editor of the Fordham Environmental Law Journal and authored the article entitled: Dirty Laundry: Why International Measures to Save the Global Clean Water Supply have Failed.

Prior to joining the firm in April 2003, Ms. Sandbank was a contract administrator in the Legal Department of Home Box Office in New York , NY.