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About Judge Shapiro Judge James Shapiro's Story:
"Some years ago, I volunteered to help in the Iowa caucuses. So I'm going around, door to door, trying to drum up support for my candidate. And I run into this really nice lady, a real Midwesterner, who opens the door, listens to my speech, and asks me if I have any political ambitions myself. And so I tell her kind of sheepishly, 'Maybe a judge or something.' And with all the sincerity that only a Midwesterner could muster, she looks me straight in the eye and says, almost pleadingly, 'Be a good one.' So I promised her I would. She was a perfect stranger to me, but the earnestness with which she said it made it seem like I knew her for years. And for almost 20 years now I haven't been able to get her out of my head. The episode plays over and over again like a film loop. I promised myself I would never let that nice lady down, because if I did I would be letting myself down."
"I am trying to keep that promise I made all those years ago. I never wanted to be a judge just for the sake of being a judge...
I want to be a judge to be a good judge."
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Detailed Resume of Judge Shapiro: Resume of Judge James Shapiro:
Admitted: Illinois and U.S. District Court, Northern District of Illinois
including Trial Bar; 1985
U.S. Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit and U.S. Supreme Court; 1988
Law School: William and Mary, J.D., 1985.
College: Trinity College, A.B., 1981.
Memberships: 1. President, Decalogue Society of Lawyers 2. Justinian Society of Lawyers 3. Cook County Bar Association 4. Illinois State Bar Association 5. Chicago-Lincoln Inn of Court
6. Chicago Council of Lawyers Professional Activities of Judge James Shapiro:
1. Assistant U.S. Attorney, Northern District of Illinois
(Civil and Criminal Divisions), 1989-1995.
2. Special Assistant Attorney General, 2000-2001.
3. Hearing Board Officer, Attorney Registration and Disciplinary
Commission; 1996–2007 (Chair, 1998-2007).
4. Chair-Qualified Arbitrator, Cook County Mandatory Arbitration Program,
1997-2007.
5. Expert Witness in Omega Wrecking Co. v. Elgin State Bank,
94 CH 7452 (Circuit Court of Cook County, IL). Academic Activities and Publications of Judge James Shapiro:
1. Adjunct Professor, Federal Courts, John Marshall Law School; 2003-present 2. Order of the Barrister. Best Oralist and Member, First Place Team,
William and Mary Federal Courts Moot Court Tournament.
3. Adjunct Professor, Loyola University School of Law, 1995-1998. 4. Lecturer and Debater, American Criminal Justice System and American Death Penalty, German-American Institutes at Heidelberg, Freiburg, Stuttgart, Munich, Nuremberg, and Tübingen, Summer 1999 and Fall 2000 5. Guest Lecturer, Federal Plea Negotiations, Negotiations Seminar,
Chicago-Kent College of Law, 1993-2003.
6. Featured Speaker, American Constitution Society, "Judges as Politicians:
How Much Should Judicial Candidates or Nominees Reveal?" February, 2006. 7. Author: "Comity of Errors: When Federal Sentencing Guidelines Ignore State Law Decriminalizing Sentances." 41 Akron L. Rev. 1. (2008)
8. Author: "Choice of Law Under the Federal Tort Claims Act:
Richards and Renvoi Revisited," 70 N.C. L. Rev. 641.
9. Co-Author: "Federal Sentences for Aliens Convicted of Illegal Reentry Following Deportation: Who Needs the Aggravation?" 9 Geo. Immigr. L.J. 451.
10. Co-Author: "Sentencing Illegal Aliens Convicted of Illegal Reentry after Deportation: A Proposal for Simplified and Principled Sentencing," 8 Fed. Sent. Rptr. 264. 11. Designated "2007 Illinois Super Lawyer" as chosen by his peers and through the independent research of Law & Politics (Key Professional Media)
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