Richard N. Shapiro - Virginia Beach, VA

Overview

Awards and Honors

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Education

• Legal Education

  • George Mason University School of Law, Arlington, Virginia, 1984
    J.D.
    Honors: With Distinction
    Law Review: George Mason University Law Review, Member, 1982 - 1984

• Non Legal Education

  • University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, 1980
    B.A.

Current Employment Position(s)

• Partner

Past Positions

• U.S. Congressman Whitehurst, Staff assistant

References

• National Board of Trial Advocacy, Mass. (Board Certification)

• www.Primerus.com (Selective Attorney Membership Organization)

Classes and Seminars

• Invited Presenter: AAJ Seminar on Railroad Release Law (June 2009), and has been an invited speaker at a number of national and regional lawyer seminars
  
• Invited Presenter: AAJ National Lawyer’s Seminar on Corporate Representative Depositions (February 2012)
  
• Invited Presenter: “End Distracted Driving”, Jamestown High School in Williamsburg, VA (January 2013)
  
• Invited Presenter: “Focus Groups”, Virginia Trial Lawyers Advocacy Seminar (October 2019)

Representative Cases

• Ratliff v. Norfolk Southern Railway Co., 2009 WL 649268 (March 12, 2009)
• Payne v. CSX Transportation, Inc., No. 2-231-07, (Dec. 27, 2013)
• Bilenky v. Ryobi Technologies, Inc., et.al, No. 2:13-cv-00345 (E.D. Va. June 26, 2015)
• Muhammad v. Norfolk Southern Railway Co., No. 18-1695 (4th Cir. June 4, 2019)

Published Works

Articles

• Railroad Health & Safety; a Litigator’s Guide, Co-Author, 72 Am. Jur. Trials, p.1 (West)
  
• Using Medical Evidence to Maximize Personal Injury Case Damages, The Journal of the Virginia Trial Lawyers Association, Vol. 21, No. 1, 39-46 (2009)
  
• Statistics Evidence in Injury Cases: Excluding It or Infusing It in Direct Exam?, The Journal of the Virginia Trial Lawyers Association, Volume 23, No. 2, 3-6 (2012)
  
• Author and Editor for three health and safety blogs on The Legal Examiner
  
• Top 10 Civil Justice Stories (2015 & 2016), The Legal Examiner, 2015 and 2016
  
• Top 10 Civil Justice Stories (2017), The Legal Examiner, Part One and Part Two
• Top 10 Civil Justice Stories (2018), The Legal Examine, Part One and Part Two
• Top 10 Civil Justice Stories (2019), The Legal Examiner, Part One and Part Two
• Preserving Survival Damages – When Your Case Morphs Into a Wrongful Death Action, The Journal of the Virginia Trial Lawyers Association, Vol. 27, No. 3, 2-5 (2019)

Bar Admissions

• Virginia, 1984
• North Carolina, 1996
• West Virginia
• U.S. District Court Eastern District of Virginia, 1985
• U.S. Supreme Court
• Washington
• U.S. Court of Appeals 4th Circuit

Specialties and Certifications

• Board Certified Civil Trial Advocate by the National Board of Trial Advocacy (ABA Accredited)

Other Affiliations

• American Association of Justice Railroad Section (Chairman)
• Railroad Trial Lawyers Association (Executive Committee Member)

Fraternities and Sororities

• Delta Theta Phi