Attorneys

Admitted: 1995, New York, U.S. District Court, Southern and Eastern Districts of New York and U.S. Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit

Law School: Fordham University, J.D.

Biography: Jonathan S. Shapiro has been a partner at The Shapiro Firm, LLP since 2002, where he counsels and litigates concerning intellectual property and unfair competition, as well as general commercial matters. He developed a Trade Secret Law course which he has taught as an adjunct professor at Fordham Law School since 2006. Mr. Shapiro was an associate at Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP, New York, New York, from 1995-2002, where he concentrated on antitrust and intellectual property law, and also was a law clerk to the Honorable Alfred J. Lechner, Jr., U.S.D.J., in the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey (1994-1995). He is a 1994 cum laude graduate of Fordham Law School, where he was a member of the Order of the Coif and a Notes and Articles Editor on the Fordham Law Review.

Mr. Shapiro is a member of the New York State Bar Association, the Fordham Law Alumni Association and the Fordham Law Review Alumni Association. Mr. Shapiro is licensed to practice law in New York, and has been admitted to practice before the United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit, the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York and the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York.

He has authored the following: “Start-Up and Grow with Counsel: Tackling Legal Issues Confronting Small Businesses,” The Shapiro Firm, LLP, 2011; "Trade Secret Law Practice: Keeping Secrets and Avoiding Liability," NYSBA Bright Ideas, Spring/Summer 2004; "Proving Trademark Dilution After 'Victoria's Secret'," New York Law Journal, April 14, 2003; "Protecting Trade Secrets in an IP Audit," New York Law Journal, October 21, 2002; Note, "Warming the Bench: The Nonstatutory Labor Exemption in the National Football League," Fordham Law Review, April 1993. Additionally, he was a contributing author to The Journal of Proprietary Rights, 1995-1997, and a co-author of “The Stakes are High for Antitrust Defendants as Treble Damages May Be Only the Beginning," Metropolitan Corporate Counsel, September 1999.

Mr. Shapiro and his family live in Westchester, New York, where he volunteers as a youth lacrosse coach and as a Board Member of John Jay Youth Lacrosse.