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It is an honor and privilege to have a client’s trust in handling their most pressing legal matters. In my experience, working together collaboratively leads to the most innovative and creative solutions to complex legal challenges.

Ms. Sherman concentrates her practice in commercial litigation with an emphasis on complex commercial disputes. She has more than a decade of experience representing corporations and financial institutions, with a particular expertise in securities class actions and shareholder derivative lawsuits.

Ms. Sherman has assisted numerous banking clients in investigations related to global regulatory sanctions, anti-money laundering compliance, alleged manipulation of benchmark interest rates, and in a broad range of government inquiries and subpoena responses.

Ms. Sherman has also handled investigations and commercial and employment disputes for clients in the manufacturing, pharmaceutical, and higher education industries. She has also counseled clients on data privacy issues.

Prior to joining the firm, Ms. Sherman was a litigation associate at a prominent national law firm.

Results may vary depending on your particular facts and legal circumstances.

Honors & Awards

  • Listed in Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch (a trademark of Woodward/White, Inc.) in the Commercial Litigation practice area (2022 - present)
  • Recipient of the Commitment to Justice Award from Her Justice, a nonprofit organization that provides free legal help to women living in poverty in New York City, for her successful representation of a domestic violence survivor and her children in their U Visa applications (2014)

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Representative Matters

Results may vary depending on your particular facts and legal circumstances.

  • Represented a publicly traded company in a putative securities class action, resulting in dismissal of the complaint in its entirety and affirmance on appeal
  • Represented a pharmaceutical company in a putative securities class action, obtaining the dismissal of all claims in the complaint
  • Successfully obtained a no action letter in an SEC investigation of a pharmaceutical company
  • Represented a nationwide shingles manufacturing company in decertifying a previously certified class action related to allegations of breaches of warranty and defective product
  • Represented a standard setting body that establishes financial accounting standards in a matter related to an alleged patented method of financial accounting, resulting in a complete dismissal of claims
  • Represented a firm and professional in a successful summary judgment motion dismissing all claims for malpractice
  • Represented pro bono an Alabama death row inmate obtaining multiple stays of execution and through two federal court trials relating to the constitutionality of his method of execution
  • Represented pro bono a disabled middle school student in obtaining five years of benefits following two prior denials of benefits

Uniquely NJ

  • New Jersey State Bar Association; Business Law Section, Civil Trial Bar Section, Dispute Resolution Section, Women in the Profession Section
  • Mercer County Bar Association
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More Activities & Experience

  • American Bar Association, Business Law Section; Vice Chair, Securities Litigation Subcommittee, Business and Corporate Litigation Committee; Co-Chair, Wellness, Life Balance & Time Management Subcommittee
  • French-American Chamber of Commerce, Philadelphia Chapter
  • Journal of International Law, University of Pennsylvania Law School; former Associate Editor

  • Prior to law school, Ms. Sherman worked as a legal assistant in a New Jersey law firm representing clients in various environmental and historic preservation litigation matters, including those related to the preservation of Buccleuch Mansion, Traders Cove marina and the "Tillie" mural in Asbury Park.

  • Ms. Sherman is fluent in French and Spanish

Publications & Alerts

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Departments

Education

University of Pennsylvania Law School, J.D., 2009

Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris, M.A., 2009

Bryn Mawr College, B.A., magna cum laude, 2004

Bar Admissions

  • New Jersey, 2009
  • New York, 2010
  • Pennsylvania, 2022

Ones to Watch Meredith C. Sherman

Please visit our Award Methodology page for a description of the standard or methodology on which these accolades are based. Attorney Advertising: No aspect of this advertisement has been approved by the Supreme Court of New Jersey.