During the more than four decades that attorney Gerald L. Shargel has been a member of the New York State Bar Association, he has earned national recognition for his criminal defense trial work.

Gerald Shargel focuses exclusively on defending clients accused of white collar and non-white collar crimes, many of these being high-profile cases at the state, federal and appellate level. Lawyer Gerald Shargel has been profiled in numerous local and national publications, including The New York Times and The New Yorker. He has authored and lectured extensively on subjects of interest in his practice area and currently writes for the Daily Beast.

Mr. Shargel's contributions to the legal profession have been recognized by his peers, by law schools and lay people. He has been selected for inclusion in New York Metro's Super Lawyers every year since 2006. Super Lawyers is a peer-review listing that highlights just the top 5 percent of the New York metro area's attorneys. The New York State Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers honored him with the Thurgood Marshall Award for Outstanding Criminal Law Practitioner, and in 2007, he was named the New York Bar Assocation's Outstanding Private Defense Practitioner of the Year.