Peter L. Scherr

Mr. Scherr's practice focuses on serious personal injury and wrongful death claims resulting from the negligence of others, including those claims arising out of motor vehicle and motorcycle collisions, defective products, medical and nursing home negligence, premises defect, and industrial (construction) accidents. Mr. Scherr grew up in Bethesda, Maryland. He received an undergraduate degree from the University of Pennsylvania in 1989 and his law degree from Washington University in St. Louis in 1992. While attending Washington University, Mr. Scherr served as an editor on the law review. Following his graduation from law school, Mr. Scherr clerked for the Honorable William P. Turner in the Sixth Judicial Circuit for the State of Maryland. Thereafter, Mr. Scherr entered private practice concentrating on the motor vehicle collision and premises liability claims, and related litigation. In 1995, after joining the law firm which is now Futrovsky, Forster and Scherr, Chartered, Mr. Scherr’s practice expanded to include the litigation of products liability, medical malpractice, nursing home negligence, police brutality, and industrial (construction) accident claims. In 1998, he was made a shareholder in the firm. Over the course of his career, Mr. Scherr has successfully litigated hundreds of injury and death claims in the state and federal courts of Maryland and the District of Columbia, trying many to verdict. Mr. Scherr routinely receives referrals from other attorneys, including many from attorneys against whom he has litigated cases. Mr. Scherr is AV rated by Martindale-Hubbell and has received Maryland Super Lawyers: 2025, 2026, and Washington, D.C. Super Lawyers: 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023. Awards and Honors Super Lawyers® Selectees Peter L. Scherr included in a Super Lawyers® list Honors Super Lawyer - Maryland - 2007, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025, 2026 Martindale-Hubbell - AV Rating The National Trial Lawyers – Top 100 Trial Lawyer Super Lawyer - District of Columbia - 2007, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 Other Sources of Feedback About Peter L. Scherr Included on the 2026Maryland Super Lawyers list Past Lists 2025 Maryland Super Lawyers list 2024 Maryland Super Lawyers list 2023 Maryland Super Lawyers list 2022 Maryland Super Lawyers list 2021 Maryland Super Lawyers list 2020 Maryland Super Lawyers list 2007 Washington DC Super Lawyers list

• Shareholder

• The Hon. William P. Turner, Law Clerk, 1993

• Mina v. Asal, 247 A.3d 260 (D.C. 2021)
• Greene v. Children’s Nat’l Med. Ctr., 324 A.3d 261 (D.C. 2024)
• $1,950,000 Construction Company Liability – Wrongful Death and Survival Action

• District of Columbia, 1993
• U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia
• Maryland, 1992
• U.S. District Court District of Maryland

• American Association for Justice, Member
• Maryland Association for Justice, Member
• Trial Lawyers Association of Washington, D.C., Member
• National Trial Lawyers Top 100, Member