Andrew Sherman

After running his own firm for several years,[10] Sherman served as a partner in the Washington, DC offices of such large law firms as Greenberg Traurig,[11] McDermott Will & Emery,[12] and Dickstein Shapiro.[13] In February 2009, Sherman joined Jones Day in their Washington, DC office as a senior partner in the M&A and Corporate department.[14]

Sherman was named on the Greater Washington "Legal Elite" list by Washington SmartCEO in 2006,[15] and in the 2007,[16] 2008,[17] and 2009 editions of Chambers USA: America's Leading Lawyers for Business as a leading individual in the area of Corporate/M&A and Private Equity for the District of Columbia,[7] as well as one of the "Leaders in their Field" by Chambers in 2014 in the area of Corporate/M&A and Private Equity. He was also recognized in the NACD Directorship 100: People to Watch list as one of the most influential people in corporate boardrooms[18] Sherman is a member of the Board of Directors of the Center for International Private Enterprise.[19] and is a part of the Intellectual Asset Management (IAM) Strategy 300 group as one of the world's leading IP strategists.

Andrew J. Sherman has served as an adjunct professor of business management, strategy and planning at the University of Maryland's Robert H. Smith School of Business for over 20 years.[20] During his time as an adjunct professor, Sherman has won several teaching awards including the Krowe Award for Teaching Excellence in 2000, 2004, and again in 2008.[21] For the past twelve years, Sherman has served as an adjunct professor in the MBA program at Georgetown University where he teaches courses on business growth, capital formation and entrepreneurship.[22] Additionally, Sherman recently became an adjunct professor of law at Georgetown Law.[23]

A prolific author, Andrew J. Sherman is the author of 26 books focused on the legal and strategic aspects of business growth, mergers and acquisitions, capital formation, and the leveraging and licensing of intellectual property.[24] Sherman's latest book, The Crisis of Disengagement, discusses the multifaceted workplace dilemma—disengagement. The Crisis of Disengagement examines how apathy and complacency effects leadership and governance, company culture, fellow peers and team members, and lastly, the individual itself.[25] Sherman’s book Harvesting Intangible Assets compellingly describes innovation and leveraging intellectual property as a kind of farming.[26] Harvesting Intangible Assets explains the role of the company as intangible asset agrarian and provides instructions for planning, planting, nurturing, cultivating, preparing to harvest, and ultimately, selling a bumper crop by fully leveraging intangible assets and intellectual property.[26] Sherman discussed these ideas in his TedxTalk in January 2014.[27]

His book, Road Rules: Be the Truck. Not the Squirrel. was his first non-business book.[28] Road Rules is an inspirational book that applies the metaphor of commuting to work in your car to driving down the road of life.[29] Sherman discusses his inspiration and motivations for writing this book on The Connections Show audio podcast.[30] In September 2009, Sherman released a special Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD) edition of "Road Rules: Be the Truck. Not the Squirrel."[31] This edition contains a foreword by MADD National President Laura Dean-Mooney and 40% of the proceeds of sale of all book sales at www.bethetruck.com will go directly to MADD.[32]

"Road Rules" book cover