About Us

Sheraz Barkat is a Washington, D.C. attorney who focuses his practice on family law. He has been practicing family law in Washington, D.C. for over ten years. He obtained his legal education at the West Virginia University College of Law, and he also spent time studying comparative family law and international civil litigation in Sydney, Australia. Before entering private practice, Sheraz worked for several years in the United States Senate on the staff of Senator John D. Rockefeller IV.

Sheraz has many years of experience litigating and mediating family law cases in Washington, DC. He has been recognized by Best Lawyers in 2024 and 2025, Super Lawyers every year since 2017, has an “Excellent” rating and has been named “Client's Choice” for divorce cases by Avvo, has been included in Expertise’s top twenty family lawyers in Washington, D.C., and has also been recognized by 3 Best Rated as one of the top family lawyers in Washington, D.C.

Sheraz previously lectured with Divorce Mediation Training, a national program training mental health professionals on how to mediate divorce cases. Sheraz is a member of the District of Columbia Bar, the American Bar Association, and the South Asian Bar Association. He has volunteered with The Reading Connection, the Arlington Food Assistance Center, District of Columbia Volunteer Lawyers Project, and  the Veterans Pro Bono Consortium.