Rick Shapiro has practiced personal injury law for over two decades in Virginia, North Carolina, and throughout the Southeastern United States. He is a Board Certified Civil Trial Advocate by the National Board of Trial Advocacy (ABA Accredited) and has litigated injury cases throughout the eastern United States, including wrongful death, trucking, faulty products, railroad, and medical negligence claims. His success in and out of the courtroom is a big reason why he was named 2019 “Lawyer of the Year” in railroad law in U.S. News & World Report's Best Lawyers publication (Norfolk, VA area). He has been named a “Best Lawyer” and “Super Lawyer” by those peer-reviewed organizations for many years.
Rick has been involved in personal injury cases, with co-counsel, in every southeastern state, and in many other eastern USA states, and has tried dozens of major injury cases to verdict, a number with multi-million dollar verdicts.
He has written and lectured on evidence law to the AAJ, VTLA, and Georgia TLA, as well as to Virginia lawyers. Rick was elected chair of the Railroad Law section of the American Association for Justice (AAJ) twice (2013-2014 and 2005-2006) and was named President of the Railroad Accident Division of the National Trial Lawyers Association (NTLA 2013-14).
Rick is also a prolific U.S. inventor and designer of consumer-wheeled products, holding 18 US patents and numerous foreign patents, and is an international award-winning fiction thriller author, who wrote an Amazon #1 best-selling suspense novel. Check out an interview with Rick about his fiction thriller, Taming the Telomeres."
To reach Rick, call our toll-free number, 1-800-752-0042, or fill out a quick contact form which will be forwarded to Rick for review.
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Richard N. Shapiro received his college degree from the University of Maryland, served as staff assistant to U.S. Congressman Whitehurst, and graduated from George Mason Law School With Distinction. Rick also served as a member of the George Mason University Law Review, from 1982-1984. He had an article published in the Law Review's 1984 publication.
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