Benjamin Kerschberg attended the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, where he graduated with Highest Distinction and Phi Beta Kappa. Kerschberg spent his junior year abroad in Germany at the University of Heidelberg, where he was able to take regular university classes with native Germans after having passed the national German university entrance exam. Kerschberg’s concentrated his studies there on late nineteenth-century German history and foreign policy, as well as German literature. Benjamin Kerschberg eventually earned his Bachelor of Arts in Foreign Affairs and German.
After spending 15 months as a paralegal with Sidley & Austin’s Washington-based Supreme Court litigation section, Ben Kerschberg attended Yale Law School, where he was a Coker Fellow and a teaching assistant to Dean Harold Hongju Koh. Kerschberg received his Juris Doctor in 1998.
After graduating from Yale, Ben Kerschberg spent one year clerking for a federal court of appeals judge before beginning work as a corporate associate for Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, a Palo Alto, California-based law firm known for representing and taking public startup companies such as Apple, Netscape, and Google. Kerschberg later held the position of Director of Competitive Intelligence for webMethods (Nasdaq: WEBM), a Silicon Valley-based company focused on the development of business integration software.
In 2004, Benjamin Kerschberg combined his personal appreciation for equestrian sport with his training in law when he began providing legal counsel for Horse Shows in the Sun (HITS). While working with Horse Shows in the Sun, Ben Kerschberg wrote a monthly column on the hunter/jumper world for Equine Journal, a widely known publication with a readership of over 80,000. Today, Benjamin Kerschberg serves as a Real Estate Developer and General Counsel for the mid-Atlantic region of JLB Partner.
