NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sterlington PLLC, the international law firm, announced today that Jonathan Sherman, the nationally renowned litigator and First Amendment advocate, has joined the firm as partner and vice chair of strategic litigation. At Sterlington, Sherman will continue a highly publicized career—including 24 years with Boies Schiller Flexner LLP, the litigation boutique that transformed how American lawyers resolve disputes since its founding in 1997.
“Jonathan’s arrival at Sterlington is a pivotal endorsement of our firm,” said Christopher S. Harrison, founding partner and CEO of Sterlington. “Jonathan brings an unparalleled depth and breadth of experience in resolving the most complex and intractable disputes, often high profile and with bet-the-company stakes. Our clients will benefit from his creative pragmatism; and he has earned a professional stature that immediately enhances Sterlington’s credibility with clients, prospective clients and adversaries alike.”
Over his quarter century at Boies Schiller, Sherman has led clients, whether as plaintiffs or defendants, through all kinds of business disputes. He has brought litigation and arbitrations against issuers on behalf of several of the best-known private equity and hedge funds, as well as on behalf of one of the world’s largest financial institutions. On the defense side, he successfully defended issuers accused of fraud when the telecommunications bubble burst in 2001, and in the wake of the 2008 recession. He has tried cases and argued appeals in areas as varied as defamation, business interference, antitrust and ERISA. Since the early 1990s, Sherman has been widely known for representing clients to vindicate their free speech rights. As a young associate working for celebrated First Amendment lawyer Floyd Abrams, Sherman represented Court TV in its attempts to open American trial courts to audio-visual coverage (most famously in successfully keeping the O.J. Simpson criminal proceedings open to cameras). In the years since, on behalf of multiple other clients, Sherman has become one of the world’s leading advocates for public access to court and a pioneer in information age disputes.
“Sterlington is building something new—and fundamentally different from any firm that has come before it,” Sherman said. “It fuses unusually top tier legal talent with a fresh approach to management. I spent 24 years watching a collection of great lawyers come together at an inflection point in technological change, break the mold and invent a new kind of law firm,” he said, referring to Boies Schiller, founded in 1997 at the dawn of the internet age. “I am excited to be part of the same kind of project once again.”
Employing a business structure that allows attorneys to retain a larger share of the revenue they generate than their professional peers, Sterlington has grown 45% year-over-year and attracted lawyers from Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz; Cravath, Swaine & Moore; Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher; and other elite law firms.
Last month, Sterlington announced the hiring of Paul Jebely, the world’s leading aviation lawyer to ultra-high-net-worth individuals. Jebely was named international vice chair of Sterlington, which with the addition of Sherman has grown to 57 lawyers and 22 partners since its launch in 2016.
Among other career accolades, Sherman has previously been named one of the 500 Leading Lawyers in America and 500 Leading Litigators in America by Lawdragon, which called him a “nimble advocate with a sharp legal mind” whose “passion for the law bubbles forth with astonishing ferocity.” He is a life fellow of the American Bar Foundation and a former trustee of the Shakespeare Theatre Company in Washington, D.C. He received his J.D. from Stanford Law School, an M.A. from Yale University and a B.A., magna cum laude, from the University of Rochester.
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Sterlington PLLC is an international law firm focusing on complex corporate, litigation and transactional matters. By offering high-level legal expertise and customized client solutions, the firm helps clients around the world achieve their business goals. Visit us at www.sterlingtonlaw.com.
