David G. Shapiro

David G. Shapiro
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Credentials & Accolades
Bar Admissions
  • Pennsylvania

Firm Involvement

  • Chair, Tax and Employee Benefits Group
  • Vice Chair, Opportunity Zones and Qualified Opportunity Funds Practice

Degrees

  • J.D., cum laude, Duke University School of Law, 1998
    • Executive Editor, Alaska Law Review
  • A.B., Yale University, 1995

Honors & Awards 

  • Named to The Best Lawyers in America list, Tax Law, 2024
  • Named a Top 25 Tax Specialist by Opportunity Zone Magazine, 2021
  • Named a Top 25 OZ Influencer by Opportunity Zone Magazine, 2020
  • Named one of "America's Leading Lawyers in Tax Law" by Chambers USA, 2018 to present
  • Included in Who's Who Legal: Corporate Tax, 2012-2018; 2023
  • Named Lawyer on the Fast Track, Legal Intelligencer and Pennsylvania Law Weekly, 2009
  • Named a Pennsylvania Super Lawyers Rising Star, 2005-2008, 2011-2012
  • John S. Nolan Fellow of the American Bar Association Section of Taxation, 2001-2002

Teaching Experience 

  • Adjunct Professor, Temple University James E. Beasley School of Law, 2022 to present
  • Adjunct Professor of Taxation in the Graduate Tax Program, Villanova University School of Law, 2013-2016