Alexandra Shapiro Biography – Alexandra Shapiro Wiki

Alexandra Shapiro is a criminal defense lawyer and author. She began her career over 30 years ago as one of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s first clerks on the United States Supreme Court. She is a partner at Shapiro Arato Bach LLP in New York, NY.

Her practice focuses on appeals, white collar defense, and complex civil litigation. She has successfully represented prominent Wall Street professionals, public officials, as well as major public and private companies.

According to a biography on her website, Shapiro served as President of the New York Council of Defense Lawyers and received its Ostrow Award honoring her work in the defense of liberty and the preservation of individual rights.

Prior to co-founding Shapiro Arato Bach LLP in 2009, Alexandra was a partner of a leading international law firm, and before that, an Assistant U.S. Attorney in the Southern District of New York, where she also served as Deputy Chief Appellate Attorney. In addition, she served as an attorney-adviser in the Office of Legal Counsel of the U.S. Department of Justice.

Alexandra wrote a novel about a wrongful white-collar prosecution, Presumed Guilty, which was published in 2022 and has received acclaim from Forbes, the New York Law Journal, and other publications.

Education

Shapiro graduated magna cum laude from Williams College in 1986 and received her law degree from Columbia University School of Law in 1991. While at Columbia University, she received the John Ordronaux Prize for highest academic average (first in class of 347) and was a James Kent Scholar (1989-90, 1990-91), as well as a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar (1988-89). She was also an articles editor of the Columbia Law Review.

Alexandra Shapiro Age

Lawyer Alexandra Anastasia Ekaterina Shapiro was born in 1965 in Manhattan, New York City.

Parents

She is the daughter of Jacqueline Weiss and Isaac Shapiro. They were married in 1956 at the Teaneck Jewish Community Center in New Jersey. The couple settled in Manhattan and had a son and two daughters. In 1986, her father became a partner in charge of the Paris office of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, the New York law firm.

Alexandra Shapiro Husband

Alexandra Shapiro is married to criminal defense lawyer Jonathan Paul Bach. They were married on August 3, 1996 at Wave Hill in Riverdale, the Bronx. According to The New York Times, Rabbi Ronald B. Sobel performed the ceremony, assisted by Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg of the United States Supreme Court. She was a law clerk to Justice Ginsburg from 1993 to 1994.

Alexandra Shapiro Family

Lawyer Alexandra Shapiro and her husband, Jonathan Paul Bach, have three children.

Alexandra Shapiro Net Worth

Criminal defense lawyer Alexandra Shapiro has an estimated net worth of $10 million.

Famous Cases

Alexandra is one of the nation’s leading appellate lawyers. Noted for successful results in high profile white collar matters, she has won appellate reversals in many criminal and civil cases. These victories include two Supreme Court decisions narrowing the scope of the federal fraud statutes, Ciminelli v. United States and Percoco v. United States, as well as multiple Second Circuit rulings granting judgments of acquittal and new trials. Alexandra argued Salman v. United States, the first insider trading case heard by the Supreme Court in 20 years.

P Diddy Trial

Trial lawyer Alexandra Shapiro is representing Sean “Diddy” Combs, who is charged with racketeering conspiracy, sex trafficking, and transportation to engage in prostitution. The Indictment unsealed on Tuesday, September 17, 2024 alleges that between 2008 and the present, COMBS abused, threatened, and coerced women and others, and led a racketeering conspiracy that engaged in sex trafficking, forced labor, kidnapping, arson, bribery, and obstruction of justice, among other crimes.

Religion

She is Jewish.