Lawrence Gerzog

Lawrence Gerzog has over 40 years of experience litigating both civil and criminal cases in federal and state cases in New York, New Jersey, and Massachusetts and appeals in the federal appeals courts for the First, Second and Third Circuits. He graduated from the University of Massachusetts as a Phi Beta Kappa honors graduate and from Columbia Law School after having served on the Columbia Human Rights Law Review and a semi-finalist in the Harlan Fiske Stone Moot Court competition. Larry tried his first federal case in 1983 at age 26, winning a nearly one million dollar judgment for his plaintiff client as an associate at the New York law firm of Webster & Sheffield. He then moved to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of New York as an Assistant U.S. Attorney where he handled narcotics, white collar and public corruption cases. He was lead counsel on cases obtaining convictions of the then highest-ranking member of the Cali cocaine cartel tried in the United States and the notorious Medellin cocaine cartel hit man responsible for blowing up an Avianca Airways jet with a loss of all on the flight. Overall, he handled over 100 prosecutions, including over two dozen trials and appeals.

• Of Counsel

• Webster & Sheffield, Associate
• U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of New York, Assistant U.S. Attorney

• New York
• U.S. Supreme Court
• U.S. Court of Appeals 1st Circuit
• U.S. Court of Appeals 2nd Circuit
• U.S. Court of Appeals 3rd Circuit
• U.S. District Court Eastern District of New York
• U.S. District Court Western District of New York
• U.S. District Court Southern District of New York