Zach Sherwood is an associate in the Washington, D.C. office of Latham & Watkins.

Zach represents clients in high-stakes litigation matters, with a focus on government-facing litigation and regulatory disputes.

He leverages his prior experience as a trial attorney with the US Department of Justice’s Civil Division to provide clients with unique insight in matters involving federal and state administrative agencies and complex questions of administrative and constitutional law.

After law school, Zach served as a law clerk to Judge Jane L. Kelly of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit and Judge David J. Hale of the United States District Court for the Western District of Kentucky.

Zach’s experience includes representing:

  • The US Department of Health and Human Services in challenges to final rules concerning the Affordable Care Act and federal funding for child welfare services*
  • The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives in challenges to a final rule defining being “engaged in the business” of firearms dealing*
  • The US Department of Justice in a challenge brought by government subcontractors against the termination of task orders for the provision of federally funded services

*Matter handled prior to joining Latham 

Bar Qualification

  • District of Columbia
  • Indiana

Education

  • Certificate in Public Interest and Public Service Law, Duke University School of Law, 2021
    cum laude
  • JD, Duke University School of Law, 2021
    cum laude, Editorial Board Member, Duke Law Journal
  • BA in Economics, Harvard University, 2013
    cum laude