Background
Shapiro, Robert Eliot was born on December 15, 1950 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Melvin I. and Enid a. (Greenberg) Shapiro.
Shapiro, Robert Eliot was born on December 15, 1950 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Melvin I. and Enid a. (Greenberg) Shapiro.
Harvard College (Bachelor of Arts, cum laude, 1972). University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada (Master of Arts, 1975. Master of Philisophy, 1976); University of Chicago (Juris Doctor, cum laude, 1979).
Order of the Coif.
Article Editor, University of Chicago Law Review, 1978-1979. Law Clerk to Honorary Walter J. Cummings, Junior, United States. Court of Appeals, 7th Circuit, 1979-1980.
Associate Editor, Litigation, (since 1988).
Worked at Barack Ferrazzano Kirschbaum Perlman & Nagelberg. Admitted to the bar, 1979, Illinois and United States. District Court, Northern District of Illinois including Trial Bar.
1980, United States.
Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit. 1983, United States. Supreme Court. Order of the Coif. Article Editor, University of Chicago Law Review, 1978-1979.
Law Clerk to Honorary Walter J. Cummings, Junior, United States.
Court of Appeals, 7th Circuit, 1979-1980. Associate Editor, Litigation, 1988.
Review: "Resignation in Protest," 1977 Osgoode Hall Law Journal. "Interview with Morris Dees," Litigation, Volume 16, Number.
4 (1990); "Wrestling with the Discovery Demons," Litigation, Volume 18, Number.
1, (1990). " Interview with Hubert Will," Litigation, Volume 20, Number. 1, (1993); "Can a Litigator be a Problem Solver," Litigation, Volume 20, Number.
4, (1994). Member: American Bar Association.
Member: American Bar Association.
Married susan M. Heilbrunn, August 22, 1976. Children: Rachel Aliyah, Catherine Tamar, Madeleine Ivrit, Robin Mira.