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Editor: Rick Shapiro
Profession: FELA Attorney

Richard N. Shapiro practices injury law exclusively with a concentration on railroad injury law, and is with the law firm of Hajek, Shapiro, Cooper, Lewis & Appleton. He is the co author of "Railroad Health and Safety; A Litigator's Guide, published at 72 Am. Jur. Trials 1. Rick served as staff assistant to U.S. Congressman Whitehurst (1979-1981) and graduated from George Mason Law School With Distinction in 1984. He served as a law clerk to Federal District Court Judge Robert C. Doumar in Norfolk, and now exclusively handles injury law. Rick has litigated injury cases in state and federal courts throughout the Eastern U.S.A. Also, he has been an invited lecturer at national lawyer seminars of the Association of Trial Lawyers of America (ATLA), as well as for the Virginia Trial Lawyers Association (VTLA), and Georgia Trial Lawyers, and was elected Chairman of the Railroad Section of the ATLA (2005-2006). He is admitted to practice law in Virginia, West Virginia, Washington, D.C., North Carolina, as well as before the U.S. Supreme Court, and is Board Certified in Civil Trial Advocacy by the NBTA.

Rick Shapiro & Sen. John Edwards