Christopher Scharf is an associate in the Litigation group. Prior to joining Irell, he served as a judicial clerk for the Hon. Halil Suleyman Ozerden, Chief Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi. He previously externed for federal district court judges in California and Pennsylvania.
Christopher earned his J.D. from the University of Southern California Gould School of Law, where he was an executive senior editor of the Southern California Review of Law and Social Justice. He earned his B.A., magna cum laude, in History and Religion from Dickinson College, where he was a two-time NCAA Division III All-American in cross country and track.
Practice Areas
Education
USC Gould School of Law (J.D., 2025); Executive senior editor, Southern California Review of Law and Social Justice (RLSJ)
Dickinson College (B.A., History and Religion, 2022), magna cum laude
Admissions
- California
- Washington, D.C.
Clerkships
- Hon. Halil Suleyman Ozerden, U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi
