After graduating Magna Cum Laude and Phi Beta Kappa from S.U.N.Y Stony Brook, where he devoured sociology and psychology courses, Shapiro attended Fordham Law School where he graduated Cum Laude and was an Editor on the Fordham Law Review.  After Law School and serving as a Law Clerk for a Federal District Court Judge, he enjoyed a successful tenure at the international law firm Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP and, since 2002, as a partner in his own midtown Manhattan law firm.  Since 2006 he has also taught as an adjunct professor at Fordham Law School.

A lawyer from Long Island, New York may not sound too unique, but Shapiro is also a former standout high school football and lacrosse player (and Captain of both of his Varsity teams) and growing up held down jobs as varied as a landscaper, painter, sandwich maker, valet parking attendant, telemarketing cold-caller, nightclub bouncer and bartender.  Shapiro has interacted with every walk of life and found himself in many unusual situations over the years.  He has always looked at the world a little differently and has utilized his photographic memory to record his unusual observations in Shapiro's World:  It's all in the FUNNIER Details, including how to find humor in the otherwise insufferable people and situations that we are all forced to deal with on a daily basis.

Shapiro currently lives in Westchester County, New York, with his wife and their two children.