Ben Kerschberg

Benjamin S. Kerschberg (1971-) is a lawyer, author, and technology enthusiast.

Kerschberg graduated from the magnet Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology in Fairfax County (VA). He went on to graduate with Highest Distinction and Phi Beta Kappa from the University of Virginia in 1994. He then spent 15 months as a paralegal in the Supreme Court litigation section of Sidley Austin's Washington office before attending Yale Law School, from which he graduated in 1998. While at Yale, Kerschberg was a Coker Fellow and teaching assistant in Civil Procedure for Dean Harold Hongju Koh. He was also a volunteer in the law school's Temporary Restraining Order Project.

Upon graduating from law school, Kerschberg 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 and Rosati and worked as an internal industry analyst for webMethods (now Software AG), a publicly-traded Software company. He then served as General Counsel of a prominent corporation in the equestrian industry. He works in commercial real estate development in the Washington, D.C. area, where he also lives.