GERALD T. ZERKIN

Criminal Defense

 

Civil Litigation 

 

Trials and Appeals: Federal and State Courts 

 

Habeas Corpus

 

After graduating from Boston College Law School, Gerald Zerkin practiced for 25 years in Richmond, Virginia, handling personal injury, civil rights and common and complex criminal trials and appeals, and post-conviction proceedings, in state and federal courts. He argued dozens of cases in the appellate courts of Virginia and the Fourth Circuit and other United States Courts of Appeals, and the United States Supreme Court. In 2001, Mr. Zerkin became the Senior Litigator in the Federal Public Defender Office for the Eastern District of Virginia, defending a wide variety of criminal cases, including the only 9/11 prosecution in federal court. After serving as Capital Resource Counsel, advising federal capital defense teams around the country, he returned to private practice in 2015.  He is representing criminal defendants at trial, on appeal and in post-conviction, and primarily plaintiffs in civil litigation.

BAR MEMBERSHIPS

*U.S. Supreme Court

 

*U.S. Courts of Appeals for  the 4th, 8th & 10th Circuits

 

*Virginia State  Bar

 

*U.S. District Courts, Eastern &  Western Districts  of Virginia

 

*National and Virginia  Associations of  Criminal  Defense Attorneys (NACDL,  VACDL)

 

HONORS & AWARDS

 

*Fellow, American College of     Trial Lawyers (reserved for       top 10% of trial lawyers           according to judges,                 colleagues and opponents)

 

*Carrico Professionalism             Award, Criminal Law Section     of the Virginia State Bar

 

*St. Thomas More Award,            Boston College Law School