David Schertler

David Schertler is a founding partner of Schertler Onorato Mead Sears & Manning, a boutique litigation firm in Washington, D.C., that specializes in white-collar criminal defense. Mr. Schertler regularly represents individuals and corporate entities in criminal investigations and enforcement proceedings conducted domestically and internationally in a wide variety of substantive areas, including antitrust law, the FCPA, and securities fraud. Mr. Schertler's clients have included high-level executive officers of multinational corporations, and his representations have covered investigations originating throughout the United States as well as in Europe, Africa, South America, Asia, and the Middle East. Mr. Schertler also is a skilled and seasoned trial attorney. Most recently, he obtained an acquittal in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York (Manhattan) in a complex antitrust case involving the euro-to-dollar foreign exchange market.

Mr. Schertler began his legal career as a trial attorney in the Antitrust Division through the Department of Justice Honors Program. In 1984, he became an Assistant United States Attorney for the District of Columbia and served as Chief of the Homicide Section from 1992 to 1996.

Fellow, American College of Trial Lawyers.

J.D., University of Virginia Law School; Amherst College.