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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. Cases typically include a broad array of white collar and non-white collar crimes. Since 1981, Mr. Shargel has been profiled in local and national publications, including the New Yorker and the New York Times. Mr. Shargel has also contributed articles and opinion pieces to the New York Times, the Daily News, the Los Angeles Times and the online magazine Slate.
In addition to his caseload, Mr. Shargel devotes considerable time to teaching and lecturing. He is currently the Practitioner-In-Residence at Brooklyn Law School, where he teaches Evidence and Criminal Procedure. Widely regarded as a master of cross examination, Mr. Shargel recently contributed a chapter to Take the Witness: The Experts Speak on Cross Examination.
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.” Mr. Shargel was recently honored by the New York State Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, who presented him with the Thurgood Marshall Award for outstanding criminal law practitioner.
Mr. Shargel graduated from Rutgers University in 1966 and Brooklyn Law School in 1969.
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