Ben Kerschberg

Ben Kerschberg was born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, where he lived until he was five (5) years old.

He graduated from the magnet Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology in Fairfax County (Virginia). He then graduated with Highest Distinction and Phi Beta Kappa in 1993 from the University of Virginia, where he majored in Foreign Affairs and German. After graduation, he returned to the nation's capital and spent 15 months as a paralegal in the Supreme Court litigation section of Sidley & Austin's Washington office, where he worked for Carter Phillips and others on the merits briefs in several landmark cases: Romer v. Evans; United States v. Lopez; Term Limits; Missouri v. Jenkins; and BMW v. Gore. During that Term, the group also filed countless cert. petitions to the U.S. Supreme Court, as well as merits briefs in federal and state appellate courts around the country. 

Ben then attended Yale Law School, from which he graduated in 1998. While at Yale, he was a Coker Fellow and teaching assistant in Civil Procedure for Dean Harold Hongju Koh. He also volunteered in the law school's Temporary Restraining Order Project.

Upon graduating from law school, he worked as a law clerk for Chief Judge Gilbert S. Merritt, Jr. of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit.

Since clerking, he has practiced law in Silicon Valley at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati and worked as the Director of Competitive Intelligence for webMethods (Nasdaq: WEBM) (now Software AG), a publicly-traded software company.

Upon returning to the east coast, Ben served as General Counsel of Horse Shows In The Sun (HITS), a prominent corporation in the equestrian industry.

He currently works in real estate development in the Washington, D.C. and mid-Atlantic region.