 Bernard S. SharfmanBernard Sharfman joined the Firm in 2006 as Of Counsel and is a member of the Securities Fraud/Investor Protection group.
Mr. Sharfman’s legal work experience has included being a legal analyst for Bloomberg Law Reports, a member of the editorial staff of the Takeover Stock Report and an associate counsel for MERSCORP, Inc. in Vienna, Virginia. Mr. Sharfman began his legal career as an associate with the corporate and securities law firm of Muldoon Murphy & Aguggia LLP in Washington, DC. Prior to entering law school, Mr. Sharfman worked for nine years at Fannie Mae and for four years at the Office of Finance, Federal Home Loan Banks. Mr. Sharfman is the author of two recent articles on the business judgment rule: Being Informed Does Matter: Fine Tuning Gross Negligence Twenty Plus Years after Van Gorkom, The Business Lawyer, Vol. 62, No. 1 (November 2006) and Understanding Maryland’s Business Judgment Rule, Duquesne Business Law Journal, Vol. 8 (Spring 2006). Mr. Sharfman is also the author of Modifying Model Rule 5.4 to Allow for Minority Ownership of Law Firms by NonLawyers, Georgetown Journal of Legal Ethics, Vol. 13, No. 3 (Spring 2000). Mr. Sharfman is a graduate of the Georgetown University Law Center (J.D., 2000) where he was an Executive Editor of the Georgetown Journal of Legal Ethics and the recipient of the journal’s Saint Thomas More Award, American University (M.S. in Accounting, 1995), the University of Michigan (M.A. in Economics, 1983), The University of Toledo (M.B.A. (Finance), 1980) and The Ohio State University (B.S. Bus. Adm. cum laude (Economics), 1979). Mr. Sharfman is a member of the Maryland and District of Columbia bars. Contact: bsharfman@cmht.com Practice Area: |
