James L. Feldesman - Feldesman Tucker Leifer Fidell LLP

Founder
Senior Partner

“My clients value my commitment to their cause and my willingness to fight for them.”

James L. Feldesman

A founder of the firm and one of its senior partners, Jim has been a champion of the rights of health and human service grantees for over 40 years. He is the primary author of the seminal work on federal grants law, better known as The Federal Grants Management Handbook (Thompson Publishing).

Over the course of his career, he has advocated upon behalf of Head Start programs, Federally Qualified Health Centers, and Community Action Agencies to ensure that these organizations are in the best position to carry out their missions.

A veteran litigator, Jim has successfully represented federal grantees in some of the most important court decisions in the areas of federal grants and health law, including Nat’l Family Planning v. Sullivan (1992) and Action, Inc. v. Donovan (1986).

He is admitted to practice in the District of Columbia and Maryland, and before the United States Supreme Court and the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals.

Representative Matters

Nat’l Family Planning v. Sullivan, 979 F. 2d 227 (D.C. Cir. 1992).
Comm. of Mass. v. Secretary of Health and Human Servs., 899 F. 2d 53 (1st Cir. 1990).
West Va, Assn. of Comm. Health Cntr., Inc. v. Sullivan, 737 F. Supp. 929 (S.D. W. Va. 1990).
Action, Inc. v. Donovan, 789 F. 2d 1453 (10th Cir. 1986).
Sullivan v. Massachusetts, 111 S. Ct. 2252 (U.S. 1991).

Bar/Court Admissions

District of Columbia
Maryland
U.S. Supreme Court
U.S. Court of Appeals Federal Circuit

Published Works:

James L. Feldesman, The Federal Grants Management Handbook (Thompson Publishing Co., 1983).
James L. Feldesman, The Federal Grants Management Handbook, The Fed. Audit Info. Service (1992).
James L. Feldesman, The Federal Grants Management Handbook, Nat’l Ass’n of College and U. Bus. Officers (1992).

Founder Senior Partner

Founder
Senior Partner