Sherman & Sherman is a full-service law firm; the experience of its lawyers transcends the entire range of legal services, including litigation (civil and criminal), consultancy (oral and written legal opinions and advice), negotiation, arbitration, drafting of agreements and other forms of legal representations. However, for criminal litigations, the firm often times engages the services of outside lawyers to collaborate with it.

The firm itself was established in July, 1989; but its founder, Counsellor H. Varney G. Sherman, had by then been a lawyer in private practice for a little more than nine years, primarily for business enterprises. He had also by then become a partner at Maxwell & Maxwell, another law firm, and managed that other law firm for about three years before starting Sherman & Sherman.

Sherman & Sherman is a firm of three partners and eight associates, all of whom obtained their first academic degrees and first law degrees in Liberia. Counsellor Sherman himself obtained the LL.M. degree from Harvard Law School, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, while Counsellor G. Moses Paegar, the Managing Director, obtained the M.Sc. degree in Finance from American University in Washington, D.C., USA. All three partners have extensive experience in civil litigations at the courts, including the Supreme Court of Liberia and all lawyers are encouraged to acquire experience in litigation.

Counsellor Sheman’s nine-year experience as a lawyer in private practice was invaluable to Sherman & Sherman’s success; his practice covered the entire range of legal services for corporate clients in the areas of banking and finance, engineering and construction, import/export and general merchandizing, agriculture and forestry, mining and manufacturing. Incidentally, some of the clients he had while at Maxwell & Maxwell retained the services of Sherman & Sherman after it was established.

Sherman & Sherman provides legal services to private (non-governmental) persons, including corporations, international non-governmental organizations and private individuals. A few foreign embassies, notably the US Embassy in Liberia, often engages Sherman & Sherman on an ad hoc basis; the Firm also provides services to the Government of the Netherlands through its embassies in the Ivory Coast and Senegal on matters involving Liberian law.  The firm’s services range from management of simple labor disputes between an employer (the firm’s client) and its employee over termination benefits to complex corporate and commercial matters, to investment issues (including navigating the bureaucracies for obtaining concession and grants from the Liberian Government), and to lobbying with the National Legislature. The firm also provides legal representation services to all its clients at administrative agencies and the courts, including the Supreme Court, in civil litigations, including matters involving constitutional issues.