Bill Sherman

Biography

Professor Sherman is the principal attorney in the Sherman Law Firm, PLLC, which represents clients in a range of matters, with an emphasis on local government law and relations. A 1999 graduate of the University of Michigan Law School, where he was Editor-in-Chief of the Law Review, he served as a law clerk in the United States District Court for the Western District of Washington and then for the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. Before establishing the Sherman Law Firm, he worked as an associate attorney at Davis Wright Tremaine and as a Deputy Prosecuting Attorney in the Office of the King County Prosecuting Attorney. Before attending law school, he served as Special Assistant to Secretary of the Interior Bruce Babbitt. His article, Your Mayor, Your "Friend": Public Officials, Social Networking, and the Unmapped New Public Square, was published in the 2011 issue of the Pace Law Review.