Louis Charles Shapiro
Sprague
& Sprague
The Wellington Building, Suite 400
135 South 19
th StreetPhiladelphia, PA 19103-4909
Phone: (215) 561-7681
Fax: (215) 561-6913
Louis Charles Shapiro graduated summa cum
laude and Phi Beta Kappa with an A.B. degree in German and History
from Hamilton College in Clinton, New York in 1994. After graduating
from Washington and Lee University School of Law in Lexington, Virginia
in 1997, he clerked for the Honorable Stanley S. Brotman, Senior U.S.
District Judge, in Camden, New Jersey. Thereafter, he was an associate
in the litigation department at Blank Rome LLP in Philadelphia for four
and a half years, where he concentrated on commercial and environmental
litigation. He received a Master of Laws (LL.M.) degree in Trial
Advocacy from Temple University’s Beasley School of Law in Philadelphia
in 2002.
Mr. Shapiro joined Sprague & Sprague in February of 2012 after many
years of practice in his family’s law firm in Vineland, New Jersey. An
experienced criminal defense lawyer, in 2009 he received the distinction
of being named a Certified Criminal Trial Attorney by the New Jersey
Board on Attorney Certification. He has successfully tried numerous
criminal cases in New Jersey state court, winning a number of acquittals
by jury verdict. In 2011, for example, he defended a client in two
separate jury trials in Cumberland County, New Jersey, in which the
client was acquitted of homicide and attempted homicide charges stemming
from two separate incidents. He also has successfully tried civil cases
in New Jersey and Pennsylvania. At Sprague & Sprague, he will continue
in his criminal defense practice, as well as focus on numerous areas of
civil litigation.
Mr. Shapiro is the current President of the Cumberland County (NJ)
Bar Association until June of 2012. He is admitted to practice in
Pennsylvania and New Jersey, before the U.S. District Courts for the
Eastern District of Pennsylvania, New Jersey and the Western District of
Michigan, as well as before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third
Circuit.
