Full Name
Hilary Gerzhoy
Job Title
Partner
Company
HWG LLP
Speaker Bio
Hilary P. Gerzhoy, Esq. is a partner at HWG LLP, where she serves as vice chair of the firm’s legal ethics and malpractice group. She represents lawyers and firms in disciplinary investigations, prosecutions, and malpractice matters. She has represented attorneys in front of every disciplinary body at the state and federal level in D.C. and Maryland, before the Virginia State Bar, and before the USPTO’s Office of Enrollment and Discipline. Ms. Gerzhoy represents attorneys and firms in high stakes arbitrations and litigation. She counsels attorneys about conflicts, advertising, fee disputes, the unauthorized practice of law, partner admissions, and law firm formations and dissolutions to avoid problems before they arise.
Ms. Gerzhoy is the vice chair of the D.C. Bar Rules of Professional Conduct Review Committee, which proposes amendments to the D.C. Rules, and a member of the ABA’s Standing Committee on Ethics and Professional Responsibility. In 2022, the judges of the D.C. Circuit appointed her to serve as one of the six members on the D.C. Circuit’s Advisory Committee on Admissions and Grievances. She is an adjunct law professor at the Georgetown University Law Center, where she teaches legal ethics. She has published more than thirty articles on developments in legal ethics and her work has been featured in the Chicago Tribune, Bloomberg Law, Law360, the Washington Lawyer, and LexisNexis. She is regularly quoted as a legal ethics leader in publications including Law.com, the National Law Journal, and Law360. Ms. Gerzhoy teaches courses on legal ethics and malpractice at bar associations and law schools across the country.
Before entering private practice, she clerked for the Honorable Kermit V. Lipez of the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit. She received her JD from the University of California Berkeley School of Law (Boalt Hall), where she served as online editor of the California Law Review, a teaching assistant for the Legal Research and Writing Program, and where she received the Prosser Award for Written and Oral Advocacy. She received her BA from the University of Chicago, graduating Phi Beta Kappa.
Ms. Gerzhoy is the vice chair of the D.C. Bar Rules of Professional Conduct Review Committee, which proposes amendments to the D.C. Rules, and a member of the ABA’s Standing Committee on Ethics and Professional Responsibility. In 2022, the judges of the D.C. Circuit appointed her to serve as one of the six members on the D.C. Circuit’s Advisory Committee on Admissions and Grievances. She is an adjunct law professor at the Georgetown University Law Center, where she teaches legal ethics. She has published more than thirty articles on developments in legal ethics and her work has been featured in the Chicago Tribune, Bloomberg Law, Law360, the Washington Lawyer, and LexisNexis. She is regularly quoted as a legal ethics leader in publications including Law.com, the National Law Journal, and Law360. Ms. Gerzhoy teaches courses on legal ethics and malpractice at bar associations and law schools across the country.
Before entering private practice, she clerked for the Honorable Kermit V. Lipez of the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit. She received her JD from the University of California Berkeley School of Law (Boalt Hall), where she served as online editor of the California Law Review, a teaching assistant for the Legal Research and Writing Program, and where she received the Prosser Award for Written and Oral Advocacy. She received her BA from the University of Chicago, graduating Phi Beta Kappa.
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