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.
After leaving the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Larry began private practice. He has handled over 350 criminal trials and appeals in murder, narcotics, white collar, federal corruption and a number of other areas in federal and state courts in New York, New Jersey and Massachusetts in a nearly a 30 year career in private practice.
Larry is a member of the Bar of New York and nearly a dozen federal courts, including the U.S. Supreme Court, where he was a member of a team of lawyers in two cases representing amicus curiae. He has also been admitted pro hac vice in federal and state courts in New Jersey and Massachusetts.
Larry has been an Adjunct Professor at Brooklyn Law School and has been an Adjunct Professor at Fordham Law School for nearly 30 years.
