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Attorney Profile

Jason A. Shapiro

Jason Shapiro

Shapiro & Mack, P.A.
7226 Lee Deforest Drive, Suite 207
Columbia, MD 21046

Columbia

Maryland (MD)

T: 410-884-6100
F: 410-884-6583
Industry Groups: 1988-1991; American Inns Of Court 1991-present; Howard County Bar, 2010-2011); Maryland Association For Justice (1991 To Present), Criminal Justice Section (Chairman) Maryland State's Attorney's Association (1988-1991); Maryland C

Practice Areas

Criminal Defense

Criminal Defense: DUI/DWI

Personal Injury Plaintiff: General

Selected To

• Maryland Super Lawyers 2012
• Maryland Super Lawyers 2011
• Maryland Super Lawyers 2010
• Maryland Super Lawyers 2009

Profile

Born in 1961 in Washington, D.C., lawyer Jason A. Shapiro was drawn to the law early on in his life, when he won a mentorship program to work in Maryland’s Montgomery County State’s Attorney Office during his senior year in high school. That year, he learned and studied under some of the area’s most outstanding trial attorneys. However, he was not fully convinced to serve the law, as he was also drawn to boxing. He attended the University of Maryland with the intent of earning a place on the USA boxing team.

As it happened, Mr. Shapiro realized that he could have both of his loves – by taking the his competitive spirit out of the boxing ring and into the courtroom. After graduation from the U of M in 1983, he earned his law degree at the University of Baltimore School of Law, evening division, while working full time during the day.

Early on in his legal career, Mr. Shapiro earned recognition as an assistant state’s attorney in Howard County, handling everything from disorderly conduct to death cases and from agricultural misdemeanors to complex white collar felonies. As a criminal defense attorney, he has defended cases throughout Maryland and the Maryland Courts of Appeals. As a result of his brief related to worker’s compensation, the Maryland’s high courts to recognize that job-related carpal tunnel was a compensable occupational disease.

He is a partner with Paul E. Mack in the boutique litigation firm of Shapiro & Mack P.A., focusing on criminal defense, DUI and DWI defense, traffic violations defense, juvenile delinquency cases and personal injury concerns.

Mr. Shapiro was selected for inclusion in the Super Lawyers listing in 2009 and 2010, a listing that is created through a peer-review selection process. Maryland’s governor, the honorable Martin O’Malley, appointed Mr. Shapiro as chairman of the Trial Courts Nominating Commission, an impressive honor, as well.

Mr. Shapiro has been named a “Best Lawyer in America” in DUI and DWI and criminal defense every year since 2008 and is the only Howard County lawyer so named. Best Lawyers in America is a widely respected publication that conducts comprehensive peer review surveys of attorneys (more than 2.8 million responded in 2010) who confidentially evaluate their peers.

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About Jason Shapiro

Law School: University of Baltimore School of Law

Admitted: 1987, Maryland

Professional Webpage: www.shapiroandmack.com/jason_shapiro.html

Honors and Awards:

  • Peer Review Rated Award for High Ethical Standards and Legal Ability
  • LexisNexis/Martindale-Hubbell/Lawyers.com
  • Named one of "The Best Lawyers in America," for work in the area of DUI/DWI and Criminal Defense for the years of:  2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, Best Lawyers in America
  • Named one of "The Best Lawyers in America," for work in the area of DUI/DWI and Criminal Defense, 2008 -2011, Best Lawyers in America

Special Licenses/Certifications:

Bar/Professional Activity:

  • Board of Directors, Maryland Criminal Defense Attorney's Association (President, 2010-2011)
  • Howard County Bar Association, 1988- present; (Chair of Criminal Justice Section 1991-2008)
  • Member, Trial Courts Judicial Nominating Commission for Howard County, 1990-1994
  • Chairman, Trial Courts Judicial Nominating Commission for Howard County, 2007 - Present
  • Maryland Trial Lawyers Association
  • Maryland State Bar Association
  • American Inns of Court 1991-Present
  • Howard County State's Attorney's Office, 1988-1991
  • Maryland State's Attorney's Association
  • Trial Courts Judicial Nominating Commission for Howard County (Chairman) 2007-present, (Member) 1990-1994

Scholarly Lectures and Writings:

  • Jewish Federation of Howard County (Board of Directors 1992-1994);  Congregation Beth Shalom (Board of Driectors 1994-1996);  University of Maryland Hillel (Board of Driectors, 2011 to present) 
  • Defending DUI cases, Defending Domestic Violence Cases; Defending Narcotic Cases, Howard County Bar Association
  • Lecturer, Howard County Public Schools
  • Lecturer, Howard County Police Academy
  • Monthly article on new developments in Criminal Law and Procedures for the Howard County Bar Newsletter, The Barrister

Verdicts and Settlements:

  • Last 2 Personal Injury Cases:   a.)  Trial, Howard County Maryland.  Verdict in Auto Negligence Death Case for insurance policy limits (in excess of $100,000);   b.)  Settled, Howard County, Maryland.  Policy limits which exceeded $1,000,000 in auto negligence case (no death)

Other Outstanding Achievements:

  • For an unbelievable fourth year in a row, Jason A. Shapiro has been named one of the BEST LAWYERS IN AMERICA.  Prestigious just to be nominated, and even a greater rarity to be so honored just one time, Jason has bestowed with this honor for the past three years in a row.  Furthermore, Jason is the only lawyer from Howard County to be recognized in the area of Criminal/DUI Defense. Best Lawyers is the oldest and most respected peer-review publication in the legal profession. Best Lawyers compiles lists of outstanding attorneys by conducting exhaustive peer-review surveys in which thousands of leading lawyers confidentially evaluate their professional peers. The current, 16th edition of The Best Lawyers in America (2010), is based on more than 2.8 million detailed evaluations of lawyers by other lawyers. Because lawyers are not required or allowed to pay a fee to be included, a listing in Best Lawyers is widely regarded within the legal profession as a signal honor, conferred on a lawyer by his or her peers. For more than 25 years, Best Lawyers lists have earned the respect of the profession, the media, and the public, as the most reliable, unbiased source of legal referrals anywhere. Big congratulations to Jason A. Shapiro for this great honor.

Video:

  • www.youtube.com/watch?v=NB42qcbSQec

Educational Background:

  • University of Maryland, College Park Maryland, B.A. in Government and Politics, 1983 University of Baltimore School of Law, Juris Doctor, 1987
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