Sherman Leland Whipple (March 4, 1862 – October 20, 1930) was an American attorney who was one of Boston's leading trial lawyers during his lifetime.

[2] Whipple was admitted to the bar in 1884 and started his legal career in Manchester, New Hampshire, as an associate of David Cross.

[2] In 1900, he represented a group of Central Massachusetts Railroad shareholders who dissented to its lease to the Boston and Maine Corporation.

[2] In 1911, Whipple and Ralph S. Bartlett represented Olea Bull Vaughn, who contested the will of her mother, Sara Chapman Bull, on the grounds that her mother was not of sound mind and unduly influenced by members of the Vedanta Society when she agreed to give her entire $500,000 estate to the organization.

[13] Whipple represented the sons of Thompson's Spa proprietor Charles S. Eaton when their father's widow contested his estate.

[1] In 1922, Whipple was lead counsel for Caleb Loring Cunningham, who was on trial for the murder of John Johnson.

[16] Whipple represented George F. Willett, who sued Kidder, Peabody & Co., F. S. Moseley & Co., Robert F. Herrick, and Daniel G. Wing for $15 million.

[22] On May 17, 1926, Judge George W. Anderson found that the noteholder's committee had damaged the value of the receivership by $6 million dollars through "maladministration and fraudulent actions" and directed an execution of $3,327,740.48 to settle the claims.

[25] In 1926, Whipple and Elihu Root Jr. represented Hornblower & Weeks in the federal government's suit against them over the 1918 purchase of the Bosch Magneto Corporation from the Alien Property Custodian.

The government alleged that the firm had a prearranged deal with the Alien Property Custodian to purchase the company at a price far lower than its actual value.

[33] The 1,200-acre (490 ha) estate contained a large trout hatchery, a stream, three ponds, two greenhouses, a dairy farm, a pig farm, tennis courts, a carpentry shop, a blacksmith's shop, a grist mill, a twelve-room manager's house, twelve cottages, and a hall with a stage, library, and engine house.

[37] In 1917, the United States House Committee on Rules chose Whipple to conduct an inquiry into Thomas W. Lawson's allegations that members of the State Department had leaked advanced information on President Woodrow Wilson's World War I peace proposal to Wall Street traders.

[1] In 1919, Whipple and A. Mitchell Palmer were considered to succeed the retiring Thomas Watt Gregory as United States Attorney General.

[38] Wilson was ready to nominate Whipple, but Palmer's colleagues on the Democratic National Committee and recipients of his patronage during his tenure as Alien Property Custodian interceded on his behalf.

Bishop Henry Knox Sherrill and William Lathrop Clark, rector of Saint Paul's Church in Brookline, conducted the services.