Nina Shapirshteyn

Ms. Shapirshteyn was born in Kiev, Ukraine. During her college career, she became the first president of the Russian Club, established and ran a branch of a painting business, and volunteered at the Casa Cornelia Law Center.

Post-graduation and after a year of traveling the world, Ms. Shapirshteyn accepted an academic scholarship and a diversity grant to attend the Pace University School of Law in New York. While at Pace, she represented clients pursuing securities fraud claims, taught a supplementary contracts class, served on the Pace Law Review, and drafted a published supplement to a book on prisoners' rights.

Ms. Shapirshteyn is admitted to practice in California and New York.  Nina Shapirshteyn represents clients in cases involving catastrophic personal injury, wrongful death, and product liability.

She was one of the trial lawyers in Del Barba v. AMR, an intersection collision case involving a speeding ambulance in which the jury returned for the client a $24 million verdict.