RON SHARROW  is  a  native  of  Baltimore,  Maryland.

He attended Baltimore City College, The University of Maryland and The University of Baltimore Law School.  His  Baltimore   law  firm  represented   clients   in both  criminal  and civil cases  for  more  than four decades. He and his family (wife, Beth and their pet Maltese, Trinket) divide their time between  their homes in Palm Desert, California  and their Central Park apartment in New York City.
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RON launched his legal career shortly after earning his JD degree from the University of Baltimore School of Law in 1965, and one day after being sworn in as a member of the Maryland Bar.  He established the Law Offices of Ronald M. Sharrow, Chartered, a Maryland professional corporation and opened his office in downtown Baltimore.  He retired from active practice in 1998.
        He was admitted to practice in the Maryland State Courts, the  Federal Courts, and The Supreme Court of the United States. In 1976 he was one of the three lawyers in the country who pioneered the concept of legal clinics which championed readily available and affordable legal services from store-front law offices throughout the United States.  By the end of 1977, he had established 20 legal clinic offices in 8 states on the East Coast.
        His involvement in that movement led to a lawsuit which he filed against the Maryland State Bar Association for violating his First Amendment right to freedom of speech. That suit was resolved favorably by the United States Supreme Court in the summer of 1977.  The decision forever changed the way law was practiced in the United States and led to the freedom of all professionals to advertise their services.   Mr. Sharrow became the first lawyer to advertise his services on television.      
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   AUTHOR  ~  Throughout the years that he was actively engaged in his law practice, Ron kept a journal into which he scribbled notes of the funny things people said to him, the malapropos and the preposterous situations people got themselves into.  The one thing that he attributes to the maintenance of his sanity was a keen sense of humor which allowed him to observe the humor in most situations. It was the humor that he chronicled in that journal which led him to the decision to memorialize these stories in the series of Bruce West novels and The Full Moon Diary. He compiled and edited Jokes in a Plain Brown Wrapper, a best selling anthology of more than 1,000 of the funniest jokes of the past 20 years.
                                                               Published by Bare Bones Publishing
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                               The Bruce West Novels  
The genre of the Bruce West novels is legal humor. Each book involves the courtroom drama of a criminal case with a bizarre twist. The cases, though fictionalized, are based upon actual cases he tried during the course of his legal career. Most of the characters in the books likewise are based upon people who filtered in and out of his life during the years he practiced law.

Every preposterous story related to Bruce by his clients, although fictitious, reflects the true account of a story related to Ron by his clients and which were memorialized in the journal he religiously maintained throughout the years of his professional career. .

 Praise for the Bruce West Novels

"Ron Sharrow writes like Elmore Leonard…but funnier and more pornographic."

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