ABOUT us

professor berman

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Professor Berman is the Walter S. Cox Professor of Law at The George Washington University Law School, and has been a law professor since 1998. He has taught courses in Civil Procedure, Conflicts of Law, Administrative Law, Internet Law, Copyright Law, and Federal Courts and Appellate Advocacy, among others, as well as the law school's introductory courses to the American Legal System. 

He served as Dean of two law schools and as GW's Vice Provost for Online Education and Academic Education. He has been a Visiting Professor and Visiting Research Scholar at Princeton University and a Distinguished Visiting Professor or Lecturer at universities in the UK, France, Australia, New Zealand, Germany, Japan, Belgium, Brazil, the Netherlands, and Italy.

In addition to his work as a professor, he served as an associate at Sullivan & Cromwell and Jenner & Block and as a trainer in legal writing at Day Pitney. He has briefed and argued cases in the U.S. Courts of Appeal for the Second, Fourth, and DC Circuits, and has done work writing amicus briefs and expert reports in connection with litigation.  He regularly consults on legal issues with many private sector financial firms and comments frequently on legal current events in the media.


our goals

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  1. Provide the high quality legal representation of an appellate litigation boutique at a fraction of the cost;

  2. Bring decades of clerkship, professorial, and appellate advocacy experience to every case;

  3. Staff every case personally, with assistance from only the very top clerkship-bound law students or recent graduates;

  4. Give every case individualized attention with efficient case preparation and unlimited client contact;

  5. Offer flat rate or hourly billing.