William D. Shapiro

William Shapiro is the principal of the Law Offices of William D. Shapiro with offices in San Bernardino, CA. handling catastrophic personal injury and wrongful death cases arising from negligence, product defects as well as dangerous conditions of personal and public property. Mr. Shapiro is a Diplomat in ABOTA, a Fellow in: the American College of Trial Lawyers, the International Academy of Trial Lawyers, and the International Society of Barristers. He is Board Certified by the National Board of Trial Advocacy and recognized by the State Bar of CA as a Specialist in Civil Trial Advocacy. US News & World Report designated his firm “Tier 1” in Best Firms and listed him in Best Lawyer in America naming Shapiro “Lawyer of the Year, Personal Injury IE, in 2021 and 2017. For over 10 years hes been named a SuperLawyer Top 100 in So. Cal.; the Orange County Register Metro included him in Best Lawyers in Orange County, and the Inland Empire Magazine included him in Best Lawyers in Inland Empire. Mr. Shapiro was honored: 2016 Trial Lawyer of the Year by the Orange County TLA; 2016 Trial Lawyer of the Year by the WSBC Bar Assoc; 2015 Trial Lawyer of the Year by Cal ABOTA; 2014 Trial Lawyer of the Year by Consumer Attorneys of CA IE; 2013 Trial Lawyer of the Year by OCTLA receiving the “Surr Award” by the SBCBA that year and was nominated Trial Lawyer of the Year by Consumer Attorneys of LA in 2013 and 2016 and Consumer Lawyer of the Year by Consumer Attorneys of CA in 2016 and 2010. The National Trial Lawyers included Mr. Shapiro in the Top 100 Lawyers, and the National Association of Distinguished Counsel included him one of the Top One Percent in the Nation. Rated AV Preeminent by Martindale-Hubbell, Mr. Shapiro is Past President of: ABOTA SB/Riv Chapter; the San Bernardino County Bar Association; the Consumer Attorneys of CA. Inland Empire Chapter and the Joseph B. Campbell INN of Court where he was a Charter Member. Mr. Shapiro is an Adjunct Professor at Western State College of Law, teaching Trial Practice as well as being on the faculty of the ABOTA Trial College at Harvard Law School and the ABA Trial Academy.