Email: keith@ucmjlawyers.com
Phone: 800-319-3134
Keith Scherer is a former Air Force JAG who joined in 2001. He served as a prosecutor at Ellsworth AFB and then at Keesler AFB, switched to defense work at Keesler, and separated in 2005. He then co-founded the firm with Greg Gagne.
From 1989 to 1992, before law school, he was an enlisted member of the Air Force Intelligence Command as a Russian linguist stationed in England.
He earned his B.A. from the University of Illinois at Chicago (1995) and his J.D. from Chicago-Kent College of Law (1998). Since then he has focused on high-stakes criminal defense in federal and military courts.
For over 20 years he has defended service members in courts-martial and administrative proceedings across all branches (Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines, Coast Guard) both CONUS and OCONUS. His cases cover the full spectrum of UCMJ offenses: murder and attempted murder, aggravated assault, rape and sexual assault (Article 120), child pornography (CSAM), drug conspiracy/possession/distribution, extortion, larceny, fraud, fraternization, adultery, officer misconduct, domestic violence, and child abuse. He has secured numerous dismissals, dropped charges, acquittals, and preserved retirements and careers.
His federal experience includes mail/wire fraud, mortgage fraud, money laundering, tax fraud, RICO actions, CSAM, and grand jury representations for witnesses and targets. He has also handled professional licensing boards and other administrative proceedings for business and military professionals.
Through decades of casework he has developed deep familiarity with medical/trauma/toxicology/psychology issues (collaborating with experts) and digital forensics (cell phones, computers, networks, communications), skills that prove critical in complex sex offense, CSAM, and conspiracy cases where evidence often turns on forensics or expert testimony.
He has appeared as a media commentator on military criminal issues and consulted on baseball-related drug investigations (BALCO prosecution, congressional steroid hearings, Barry Bonds case), drawing on his background as a published baseball writer (Baseball Prospectus annual, Mustaches and Mayhem, Juice, Rob Neyer’s Big Book of Baseball Blunders, contributions to Baseball Prospectus Online, The Hardball Times, espn.com, and SABR).
He is admitted to the Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces, service appellate courts, the Seventh Circuit, Northern District of Illinois, Federal Trial Bar, and Illinois state courts.