The Shapiro Legal Team
Richard M. Shapiro, Esq.
Education:
Southwestern University School of Law
Areas of Litigation:
- Personal Injury/Wrongful Death
- Medical Negligence
Bar Admissions:
- Florida
- Connecticut
- Pennsylvania
Richard M. Shapiro, the principal of the Shapiro Law Group, has been practicing in the Tampa Bay, Florida area since 1981. He began his career as a research assistant to his father who was Chairman of the Radiology Department at one of Yale University’s primary teaching hospitals. It was working with medical research that inspired Mr. Shapiro to focus his law practice on issues concerning the spinal cord and brain. After thirty years representing those injured due to malpractice and negligence he is an expert in litigating cases concerning the spine and brain, including quadriplegia, paraplegia, bilateral blindness, and traumatic brain injury.
Mr. Shapiro has been honored with several distinguished awards for trial advocacy by his peers, including one award for his representation of Jessica Roud, a young child whose life was devastated after a neurosurgeon negligently traumatized her brain during removal of a brain tumor that left her blind and quadriplegic.
In addition to medical malpractice, Mr. Shapiro has litigated numerous complex personal injury cases including those caused by trucking accidents. In fact, many of his cases and verdicts have been instrumental in shaping the Florida legal system, as we know it today. Mr. Shapiro’s relentless pursuit of justice has been recognized by various legal and civic organizations throughout the country. Mr. Shapiro is in the Who’s Who in American Law; has served as President of the Academy of Florida Trial Lawyers, as well as President of the Southern Trial Lawyers Organization. Mr. Shapiro serves on the Advisory Committee for the Manasota Association for Retarded Citizens.
Janis L. Brush, Esq.
Education:
Stetson University, College of Law, Juris Doctor
University of South Florida, Bachelor of Science, Nursing
St. Clair College, Diploma Health Sciences
Areas of Litigation:
Bar Admission:
- Florida
Janis Brush is a Registered Nurse and Attorney. Ms. Brush has spent almost 20 years in healthcare advocating and caring for countless critically ill and injured patients. It was her desire to continue in that devotion to advocacy that eventually led her to a career in the law.
