Henry Asbill

Henry Asbill is a Partner with Schertler Onorato Mead Sears & Manning whose practice focuses on White Collar Criminal Defense & Government Investigations, Securities Litigation & Enforcement, Antitrust Litigation and Enforcement, Appellate Litigation, and Civil Litigation. With more than four decades of jury trial and appellate experience, he represents corporate and individual clients in high-stakes criminal investigations, civil disputes, trials, and appeals in federal and state courts.

Asbill’s education includes Georgetown University Law Center and Princeton University. He later returned to Georgetown as an adjunct professor of criminal and civil trial practice and has also taught in the Federal Judicial Center’s training program for federal district judges. His academic and teaching experience complements a career devoted to courtroom advocacy, evidentiary strategy, appellate issues, and the practical demands of complex criminal and civil litigation.

Asbill has defended clients in more than 100 trials and 30 appeals. Representative matters include the defense of former Virginia Governor Robert McDonnell, whose public corruption convictions were unanimously overturned by the U.S. Supreme Court, and the appellate representation of Bridget Kelly in litigation that also reached a unanimous Supreme Court reversal. His work also includes securities fraud, RICO, tax, money laundering, FCPA, and corporate investigations.

Henry Asbill is a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers and has held leadership roles in several criminal defense and trial organizations, including the American Board of Criminal Lawyers and the D.C. Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers. His extensive trial, appellate, teaching, and professional leadership experience supports a practice focused on strategic defense, careful factual analysis, and persuasive advocacy in complex government investigations and litigation.

Law Office Affiliations

• Partner, Schertler Onorato Mead Sears & Manning
• Member, District of Columbia Bar
• Member, New York State Bar Association
• Fellow, American College of Trial Lawyers
• Past president and Fellow, American Board of Criminal Lawyers
• Past president, D.C. Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers
• Former two-term director, National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers
• Master, Edward Bennett Williams Inn of Court
• Member, New York Council of Defense Lawyers
• Senior Fellow, Litigation Counsel of America

Licensed State

• District of Columbia
• New York

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