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Lisa H. Schertler

Ms. Schertler is an experienced appellate advocate. She joined Schertler & Onorato as Counsel in 2009 after serving approximately 13 years in the federal government, where she specialized in appellate litigation. Most recently, Ms. Schertler served as an Assistant to the Solicitor General in the Department of Justice. In that capacity, she argued three criminal cases before the United States Supreme Court and briefed a variety of other matters in the Supreme Court. Ms. Schertler also was an Assistant United States Attorney in the District of Columbia for over a decade. She served as Deputy Chief of the Appellate Division in the United States Attorney’s Office and as a senior attorney in that Division. In those capacities, Ms. Schertler was assigned to handle some of the office’s most challenging and high profile criminal appeals. She has argued approximately 30 cases in the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit and in the District of Columbia Court of Appeals, and she has briefed or supervised the briefing of many more cases before those courts. In 1997 and 1998, Ms. Schertler served as an Associate Counsel to the President and advised units of the Executive Office of the President on legal and ethical matters. Earlier in her career, Ms. Schertler was an associate at the law firm of Covington & Burling.

Ms. Schertler earned her Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees from Stanford University in 1988 and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. She graduated from Harvard Law School, cum laude, in 1991. She guest lectures at the University of Virginia School of Law.

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