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Gerald L. Shargel
Email: gshargel@shargellaw.com
Phone: 212.446.2323
Fax: 212.446.2330
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Gerald L. Shargel, a member of the New York Bar since 1969, limits his practice to the defense of serious criminal cases. Over the past several decades, Mr. Shargel has handled numerous high profile cases at both the trial and appellate level. His cases include a broad array of white collar and non-white collar crimes. Mr. Shargel has been profiled in local and national publications, including the New Yorker Magazine, the New York Times and New York Magazine.
Mr. Shargel has also contributed articles and opinion pieces to the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, the New York Law Journal, the Huffington Post and the online magazine, Slate. Currently, he is a contributor to the Daily Beast. In 2004 he wrote a column for the New York Daily News. He also contributed a chapter in Take the Witness: The Experts Speak Out on Cross-Examination(Juris Publishing 2006). Mr. Shargel recently authored a law review article published in the Fordham Law Review, Federal Evidence Rule 608(b):Gateway to the Minefield of Witness Preparation, 76 Fordham L. Rev. 1263 (December 2007).
In a 1994 New Yorker profile, Mr. Shargel was described as “one of the most brilliant criminal defense attorneys in America. . . quite possibly the finest of his generation.” In 2006 Mr. Shargel was honored by the New York State Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, presenting him with the Thurgood Marshall Award for Outstanding Criminal Law Practitioner. In that same year, Mr. Shargel received the Robert Cohen Award for the Distinguished Defense Lawyer of the Year Award by the New York Criminal Bar Association. In 2007, Mr. Shargel was recognized by the New York State Bar Association as that year’s Outstanding Private Defense Practitioner. He is also a life member of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers.
In addition to his law practice, Mr. Shargel has been the Practitioner-in-Residence at Brooklyn Law School since 2003, where he teaches Evidence and a variety of criminal law subjects. He is also a member of the Board of Trustees of the Neighborhood Defenders Service of Harlem.
Mr. Shargel graduated from Rutgers University in 1966 and Brooklyn Law School in 1969.
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