​​​​​As Vice Chair of the D.C. Rules of Professional Conduct Review Committee and a member of the ABA’s Ethics and Professional Responsibility Committee, Hilary Gerzhoy focuses her practice on legal ethics matters and white–collar defense.

Legal Ethics

Hilary represents lawyers, firms, and companies facing the full range of legal ethics matters, including disciplinary investigations, legal malpractice litigation, fee disputes, bar admissions, unauthorized practice of law (UPL) inquiries, conflicts, advertising, lateral partner moves, and law firm formations and dissolutions. She routinely provides ethics opinions, advice, and expert services to lawyers and law firms. Hilary has represented lawyers 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 (OED).

Hilary is the Vice Chair of the D.C. Bar Rules of Professional Conduct Review Committee, and a member of the ABA’s Ethics and Professional Responsibility Committee and the ABA’s Ethics Series Advisory Board. She is an adjunct law professor at the Georgetown University Law Center where she teaches legal ethics, and she serves on Law360′s Legal Ethics Editorial Advisory Board. Hilary serves on the D.C. Circuit’s Advisory Committee on Admissions and Grievances, ​​a Committee appointed by the Judges of the D.C. Circuit.

A frequent writer, Hilary has published more than forty 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 The National Law Journal,  Law.com,  Bloomberg, and Law360. Hilary teaches courses on legal ethics and malpractice at bar associations and law schools across the country. She is a regular speaker at the D.C. Bar, the American Bar Association, and the Practising Law Institute.

White-Collar Criminal Defense

Hilary represents clients through all stages of litigation, from the initial complaint through trial and appeal in state and federal courts. Hilary represents ​​companies and individuals in a range of white-collar criminal investigations, including by the DOJ, the FCC, and the New York and D.C. Attorneys General. Hilary has been repeatedly recognized by Best Lawyers, Super Lawyers, and Lawdragon. She is AV Peer Review rated by Martindale-Hubbell with a 5.0 out of 5.0 rating, Highest Level of Professional Excellence. 

Before entering private practice, Hilary clerked for the Honorable Kermit V. Lipez of the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit. She received her J.D. from the University of California Berkeley School of Law (Boalt Hall), where she served as Online Editor of the California Law Review and 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 B.A. from the University of Chicago, graduating Phi Beta Kappa.