STEPHEN MARCUS

After practicing law in Washington for sixteen years, first at Covington & Burling and then at Baach Robinson & Lewis, and working in a real estate investment firm, Stephen Marcus opened his own law firm in 2004. Mr. Marcus has a varied commercial litigation, counseling and transactional practice with special emphasis on real estate, partnership and insurance coverage matters.

Mr. Marcus has represented real estate developers in partnership and breach of contract disputes, commercial landlords in disputes with tenants, lawyers and businesses in partnership disputes, high tech firms in trade secret disputes, landlords and tenants in commercial lease negotiations, developers in complex contract negotiations, and law firms and businesses in insurance coverage disputes. Mr. Marcus is also bankruptcy trustee and special litigation counsel in a Chapter 11 proceeding in which he has sued a major accounting firm for audit malpractice.

Mr. Marcus obtained his B.A. degree from the University of Toronto in 1974, his LL.B. degree from Queen’s University in 1977, an LL.B. from Cambridge University in 1978 and an LL.M. from Georgetown University Law Center in 1985. He was an adjunct professor of law at Georgetown University Law Center from 1996 to 1998 where he taught “Canadian Law and Legal Institutions.” He served on the Board of the Jewish Primary Day School of the Nation’s Capital from 2000 to 2003 where he played a key role negotiating the purchase of the school’s permanent home. He is a member of the D.C. Bar’s Law Practice Management Committee and serves on the Board of the D.C. Jewish Community Center where he chairs the community relations committee.

He is a member of the District of Columbia and Maryland bars. He has received the highest ranking of professional excellence by his peers and is AV rated by Martindale-Hubbell.

Phone: 202-776-0390 | Email: stephen@marcusfirm.com

SHERRY INGRAM

Sherry Ingram has fifteen years of litigation experience in complex commercial disputes both in private practice and for a Fortune 50 company. After a clerkship with Chief Judge James L. Edmondson on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, Ms. Ingram joined Williams & Connolly where she handled cases involving alleged violations of federal securities, antitrust, and environmental laws; corporate governance and officer and director liability; professional malpractice; breach of merger and acquisition agreements; and interference with contract and prospective business relations. She then served for seven years as an Assistant General Counsel in Verizon’s Federal Regulatory Group. She defended Verizon before the FCC in litigation brought by other carriers alleging anticompetitive behavior, in FCC investigations into Verizon’s compliance with federal communications laws, and assisted Verizon in developing and advancing its regulatory policies in FCC filings and presentations to members of Congress. She also assisted in obtaining FCC approval of Verizon’s merger with MCI and advised and assisted Verizon’s wholesale and retail business units on compliance with FCC rules and regulations and Verizon’s merger commitments.

Ms. Ingram obtained her B.A. degree from Samford University in 1991 and her J.D. from Yale Law School in 1994. She was an adjunct professor at George Mason University Law School for five years where she taught “Pretrial Practice Litigation.” She has appeared as an expert on a number of panels addressing topics such as the FCC Enforcement Bureau’s role in litigating disputes among communications providers, FCC litigation procedure, and FCC regulation of communications providers.

Ms. Ingram is a member of the bars of the District of Columbia and the Commonwealth of Virginia.

Phone: 202-776-0391 | Email: sherry@marcusfirm.com