Schertler & Onorato

Schertler Onorato Mead & Sears is a small firm of experienced litigators with a national and international practice in civil, criminal, tax, and enforcement matters. Schertler Onorato Mead & Sears is a boutique litigation firm founded by former federal prosecutors David Schertler and Danny Onorato.

Schertler Onorato Mead & Sears handles civil, criminal, and administrative matters of all sizes and varieties, ranging from small local representations to far-ranging investigations of national or international scope. On every matter we undertake, we assemble an experienced team who can execute the representation professionally, effectively, and efficiently.

White-collar criminal defense representations are a cornerstone of Schertler Onorato Mead & Sears's practice. We have extensive experience representing individual and corporate clients in investigations conducted domestically and internationally by the Department of Justice, the Securities and Exchange Commission, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, federal Offices of the Inspector General, and other federal, state, and local agencies.

Schertler Onorato Mead & Sears regularly represents individuals, corporations, partnerships, and profit and non-profit institutions on both the plaintiff and defendant side of civil disputes.

Our civil practice has included litigation involving breach of contract, business torts, accounting malpractice, fee disputes, breach of fiduciary duty, tortious interference with business relations, employment termination disputes, enforcement of non competition agreements, unfair business practices, antitrust violations, sexual harassment, real estate disputes, and discrimination claims.

Schertler Onorato Mead & Sears's criminal defense practice has deep roots in the firm. Through the background of many of our attorneys as former criminal prosecutors, we are well-versed in the substance of the criminal laws and the procedures of the local and federal court systems.

We have represented clients in criminal cases of all kinds, including the federal prosecution of an attorney for obstruction of justice, a complex federal prosecution of former military contractors involving events during the war in Iraq, a high-profile District of Columbia prosecution involving alleged obstruction of justice and evidence tampering, the District of Columbia prosecution of a special police officer charged with involuntary manslaughter following the accidental death of a hospital patient, and separate District of Columbia assault prosecutions involving a well-known recording artist and a professional athlete.