Complex Business Litigation
Erika Shapiro
Biography
Erika Shapiro is of counsel to Trepanier Tajima, LLP. Erika has extensive experience in a broad range of litigation matters. She concentrates on commercial litigation, with a focus on insurance, tort, bankruptcy, contract, intellectual property, commercial real estate, employment and estate distribution disputes. Erika has also managed multiple cases defending physicians and hospitals against allegations of malpractice.
Prior to joining Trepanier Tajima, Erika practiced litigation at White & Case LLP, with a focus on complex antitrust cases involving pharmaceutical companies.
Through this work, Erika helped successfully defend pharmaceutical companies against antitrust and unfair competition allegations, with a particular concentration on the Hatch-Waxman Act, product hopping, and reverse payment settlement allegations.
Erika is committed to the academic community and is the Founder and CEO of Study Songs, an app aimed at helping students study for the multistate bar exam through melodies contained in over 80 original songs and through pop-up definitions of over 1200 legal terms and concepts.
Erika is also invested in pro bono work and is committed to those in need of legal assistance. She has successfully appealed New York City’s denial of disability benefits to a 9/11 first responder, obtained divorces for indigent and vulnerable clients, and participated in the representation of New York City students and school employees in their effort to replace hazardous light fixtures in school buildings.
Practice Areas
- General Commercial Civil Litigation
- Complex Business Litigation
- Commercial Contract
- Partnership Disputes
- Soft Intellectual Property Litigation
- Trusts and Estates
- Insurance Matters
- Bankruptcy
- Commercial Real Estate Litigation
- Personal Injury
Education
- Georgetown University Law Center, Washington, District of Columbia
- J.D. - 2008
- Law Journal, Journal of Legal Ethics
- Universite des etudes sciences-politiques, Paris, France, France
- Masters in Global Economic Law - 2008
- Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri
- B.A. - 2005
- Honors: cum laude
- Major: French
- Minor: Writing
Past Positions
- Litigation Associate, White & Case LLP
Bar Admissions
- New York
Published Works
- Third Circuit Holds, “Give Peace a Chance”: The De Beers Litigation and the Potential Power of Settlement; 27-SPG Antitrust 48 (2013)
- The Reality of Courtroom Television Shows: Should the Model Code of Judicial Conduct Apply to T.V. Judges? (Georgetown J. of Legal Ethics), Vol. 20, Issue 3, 779-791 (2007)