Among Gerard’s international clients are a leading French aerospace company, the governments of two francophone African nations, various multinational enterprises, European investment groups, and a variety of United States based investors. In the real estate area, he represents office building, hotel, retail, and residential developers and owners, as well as some of the leading condominium developers in the United States in their land acquisition and development matters and large scale land developers in their development activities. He has also represented major foreign corporations in their commercial and real estate activities in the United States and American entities in their activities in Europe, Asia, and the Middle East.

Gerard serves as general counsel to the United States Holocaust Memorial Council which oversees the Holocaust Museum in Washington, DC and is counsel to other cultural institutions, as well as to one of the largest service organizations in the United States.

Gerard is fluent in French and renders a significant portion of his legal services in that language.

Gerard holds membership in the American Bar Association International Section, as well as the District of Columbia Bar Association. He has served on the boards of several charitable organizations, acting as legal adviser to those organizations, and is currently a board member of La Fondation du Lycée Français International de Washington.