Background
Shapiro, Kenneth L. was born on March 30, 1936 in Brooklyn, New York, United States.
Shapiro, Kenneth L. was born on March 30, 1936 in Brooklyn, New York, United States.
Fairleigh Dickinson University (Bachelor of Science, 1958). Brooklyn Law School (Bachelor of Laws, 1961).
Worked at Wilson, Elser, Moskowitz, Edelman & Dicker (Albany, New York) specializing in General Insurance and Reinsurance Practice and Litigation. Commercial, Corporate and Securities Law. Domestic and International Property and Casualty Insurance and Reinsurance.
Products and Professional Liability, Toxic Tort Defense, Environmental Impairment Liability, Medical and Hospital Malpractice, Municipal and Public Officials Liability, Trusts and Estates.
Aviation, Marine and Inland Marine. Securities and Fiduciary Liability and General Subrogation.
Admitted to the bar, 1962, New New York Adjunct Professor, Brooklyn Law School, 1987.
Counsel to Minority Leader, New York State Assembly, 1970-1974.
Chief Counsel to Speaker Stanley Steingut, 1976-1978. Deputy Chief Counsel to Speaker Stanley Steingut, New York State Assembly, 1975. Chief Counsel to Speaker Stanley Fink, New York State Assembly, 1979-1986.
Chief Counsel to Speaker Melvin H. Miller, 1987-1988.
Member: Deferred Compensation Board, 1982, Special Committee on Oversight of Labor-Management Collectively Negotiated Agreements, 1982-1984, Special Committee on Oversight with Respect to Expenditures for Committees, Studies, Projects and Programs for Employees not Represented by an Employee Organization, 1982-1984, Special Committee on Oversight of Expenditures by Collectively Negotiated Agreements Between State and Employee Organizations, 1982-1984, Occupational Safety and Health Hazard Abatement Board, 1981, New York State. Member, Government Law Center Advisory Board, Albany Law School of Union University, 1983.
Member: Brooklyn and New York State Bar Associations. Wilson, Elser, Moskowitz, Edelman & Dicker is a full service international law firm, ranking among the largest law firms in the United States with offices in twelve major cities in the United States.
We have provided our clients with a full range of expert and innovative legal services for more than a quarter of a century.
Our dramatic growth during this period has been a response to the emerging needs of existing clients and addition of new ones. Initially, ours was an insurance-related practice and we maintain a preeminent position with regard to all aspects of insurance law and the insurance/reinsurance industry serving insureds, brokers, insurers and reinsurers. As our clients have matured and broadened in scope, so have our services and expertise and we have expanded into the general corporate law, including creditors" rights and bankruptcy, trusts and estates and real estate transactions and regulatory work.
Member: Deferred Compensation Board, 1982, Special Committee on Oversight of Labor-Management Collectively Negotiated Agreements, 1982-1984, Special Committee on Oversight with Respect to Expenditures for Committees, Studies, Projects and Programs for Employees not Represented by an Employee Organization, 1982-1984, Special Committee on Oversight of Expenditures by Collectively Negotiated Agreements Between State and Employee Organizations, 1982-1984, Occupational Safety and Health Hazard Abatement Board, 1981, New York State. Member, Government Law Center Advisory Board, Albany Law School of Union University, 1983. Member: Brooklyn and New York State Bar Associations.