Background
Shepro, Richard W. was born on May 9, 1953 in Berwyn, Illinois, United States. Son of Justice Warren and Inez Marjorie (McKillip).
Shepro, Richard W. was born on May 9, 1953 in Berwyn, Illinois, United States. Son of Justice Warren and Inez Marjorie (McKillip).
Harvard University (Bachelor of Arts, magna cum laude, 1975. Juris Doctor, cum laude, 1979). The London School of Economics (Master of Science, 1976).
United States.
Presidential Scholar. Recipient, Greenman Prize. Member, Board of Editors, 1977-1978 and Supreme Court Note Editor, 1978-1979, Harvard Law Review.
Worked at Mayer, Brown & Platt. Admitted to the bar, 1979, Illinois. 1981, California and United States.
Court of Appeals, 9th Circuit.
1982, United States. District Court, Northern District of Illinois. Author: Bidders and Targets: Mergers and Acquisitions in the United States.
(Oxford, England and Cambridge, Massachusetts: Basil Blackwell 1990) with Leo Herzel. Author or Company-author: "Corporate Law Affecting Changes in Control and Recapitalizations," I.I.C.L.E., 1996.
"Next-to-last Word on Endangered Directors," 65 Harvard Business Review 38, 1987.
"Negotiated Acquisitions: The Impact of Competition in the United States," The Business Lawyer, February 1989. "Setting the Boundaries for Disclosure," Securities Regulation Law Journal, Summer 1988. "Foreign Direct Investment in the United States: A Legal Analysis," IV Wisconsin International Law Journal 46, 1986.
Lecturer: University of Chicago Law School.
London Business School. The Ecole des Hautes Etudes Commerciales in Paris.
Teaching Fellow, Harvard University, 1978-1979. Law Clerk to the Honorable James R. Browning, Chief Judge, United States.
Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit, 1979-1981.
Correspondent on Business Law to the Financial Times, 1986-1991. Special Assistant Attorney General, State of Illinois, 1981-1982. Member: American Law Institute.
Delaware national convention National Organization for Women, Indiana, 1982. Board of Governors Kohl Children's Museum. Vestryman St. Chrysostom's Church, Chicago.
Fellow Chicago Bar Foundation. Member American Bar Association, Chicago Council Lawyers (Board of Governors 1986-1989, chairman election law committee 1987-1994), Chicago Council Foreign Rels., The Chicago Ensemble (director Vice-President), Chicago Club, LaSalle Club (director and member Executive Committee).
Married Lindsay Ellen Roberts, September 5, 1981. Children: Claire Willoughby, Warren Boyd.