Washington, D.C.  ·  Boutique Litigation

Small firm.
Big cases.

Gerstein Harrow is a boutique litigation firm in Washington, D.C. We handle high-stakes, first-impression cases — the kind where the answer isn’t in a casebook yet. We specialize in plaintiff-side crypto cases, civil rights, and complex issues and appeals.

Practice Areas

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Crypto
Accountability

We were among the first lawyers in the country to figure out how to hold crypto insiders accountable to their users. We’ve sued Compound, PoolTogether, Ooki, and others — developing legal theories that have gotten real traction in courts.

02

Civil Rights &
First Amendment

We represent people whose civil rights have been violated. We have particular depth in cases involving public defenders whose independence has been threatened, and cases where corporations or the government are using legal process to punish speech.

03

Complex Issues
& Appeals

We love hard questions. We brief and argue complex cases from district courts through the U.S. Supreme Court, covering labor, employment, consumer protection, constitutional, and election law — often on issues where there isn’t a clear answer yet.

Our People

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Charlie Gerstein

Partner

An experienced civil-rights lawyer who handles complex individual cases and class actions across the country. Charlie has been at the forefront of crypto accountability litigation and public defender independence cases.

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Jason Harrow

Partner

A constitutional lawyer, appellate advocate, and legal writer. Jason has briefed and argued more than a dozen appeals and cases from trial courts through the U.S. Supreme Court in labor, employment, consumer protection, and election law.

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Jeremy Shur

Associate

A litigator working across the firm’s practices in federal and state courts.

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Harry Chiu

Associate

A litigator focused on civil rights, educational equity, and free expression. As the inaugural Lynn Walker Huntley Fellow at the Southern Poverty Law Center and the Southern Education Foundation, Harry served as lead counsel in Rinderle v. Cobb County School District — representing the first teacher fired under Georgia’s classroom-censorship law — and litigated school funding and racial justice cases across the South. He previously clerked in the Superior Court of the District of Columbia and received the American Bar Association’s LGBT Public Interest Scholarship at Harvard Law School.

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Samuel Davis

Associate

A civil rights and economic-justice litigator who has briefed and argued cases from state trial courts to the U.S. Supreme Court. Samuel previously taught election law at Harvard, brought class and mass actions against major tech companies at a plaintiff-side boutique, and clerked for Justice Anita Earls of the North Carolina Supreme Court before serving as a Liman Fellow at the ACLU.

What we’re working on

Crypto accountability, terror-victim asset recovery, civil rights, and complex appeals — a sample of what we’re litigating. Not a complete picture, just a representative look.

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Coverage & Mentions

Reuters The Wall Street Journal The Washington Post The New York Times CoinDesk Law360

Contact the Firm

Email hi@gerstein-harrow.com
Phone 202-670-4809
Address
1319 F St., NW, Suite 301
Washington, DC 20004