Stephen M. Shapiro

Stephen M. Shapiro is the founder and senior member of the Supreme Court and Appellate Practice Group at Mayer, Brown LLP, the largest appellate group in private practice. He previously served as Deputy Solicitor General in the Reagan Administration, where he was responsible for government litigation in the Supreme Court in fields including antitrust, securities, labor, banking, communications, and transportation. He has argued 25 and briefed hundreds of cases before the Supreme Court and numerous cases in federal and state appellate courts. Steve is co-author of the leading treatise on Supreme Court litigation, Stern, Gressman, Shapiro & Geller, Supreme Court Practice (2002), and numerous articles on legal issues. He is a graduate of Yale College and Yale Law School, where he served as an editor of the Yale Law Journal. He serves on the board of trustees of the Institute for Judicial Administration and is a former trustee of the Product Liability Advisory Foundation. He is a life member of the American Law Institute and a member of the American Academy of Appellate Lawyers. A listing of representative appeals handled by Steve Shapiro appears at his website, www.appellate.net/shapiro.