Richard N. Shapiro

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Top Rated Family Law Attorney with 39 years of experience

Medical Malpractice, Wrongful Death, Brain Injury, Asbestos & Mesothelioma, Nursing Home Abuse

4705 Columbus Street, #304, Virginia Beach, VA 23462

About Richard N. Shapiro

Practice Areas

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

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)

Classes and Seminars

Lectured nationally and locally before lawyers with the AAJ, VTLA and GTLA, for Virginia CLE on evidence law and railroad/FELA law, and published an article entitled “Using Medical Evidence to Maximize Personal Injury Case Damages, in the VA Trial Lawyers Law Letter Vol. 21, No. 1 (2009)
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)

Bar Admissions

Other Affiliations

Past Positions

Fraternities and Sororities

Published Works

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)