Shapiro, Lifschitz & Schram

“They give me custom-tailored advice.”

Skip Kriss – Executive Vice President, The Richmond Corporation

Events

Must Know Seminars™ are presented by our highly experienced attorneys on subjects of importance to the business community. Highly informative and enjoyable these 90 minute seminars are presented on location and teach you what you must know on the latest important topics. Since initiating our Must Know Seminar™ series our attorneys have presented, to rave reviews, at client and trade association locations across the country including Boston, Mobile, San Francisco, Washington DC and various other locations.  Currently, we offer the following seminars:

Avoiding E-Trouble
Building Green
Winning the Must Win Case
Claims Avoidance, Mitigation and Resolution

For more information or to schedule a Must Know Seminar™ contact Susan A. Mattingly.

Generating Electric Power:  Key Legal & Technical Power Plant Issues - Houston, April 27 - 29, 2010.  Judah Lifschitz, with The Boyce Consultancy, a Houston based international consulting group, are offering a one-of-a-kind learning experience and networking opportunity for professionals actively involved with the development, design, construction, and operation of power plants.  Attendees with gain a thorough understanding of key business, engineering, and legal issues and concepts associated with power plant operations.  Click here to learn more and to register for the most comprehensive training experience available to power industry and legal professionals.

American Bar Association Construction Industry Forum Winter Meeting - San Francisco, January 28, 2010.  Judah Lifschitz will speak on Pursuing Claims Against the Government.

Association of Owners and Developers National Conference - Washington, DC, November 9 - 10, 2009.  Judah Lifschitz will be leading panel discussions on Electronic Discovery.

Association of Owners and Developers National Conference - Atlanta, September 14 - 15, 2009.  Judah Lifschitz will be leading panel discussions on Electronic Discovery.

Did You Know . . .

Members of the SLS trial group have tried in excess of 50 jury trials and 75 bench trials?
The SLS construction group has worked on sports stadiums across the country including Orioles Park in Baltimore and Paul Brown Stadium in Cincinnati?
The SLS construction group has worked on power plant projects across the country?
In 2007 SLS was selected for an Honorable Mention as one of the Best Places To Work in Washington DC?
Ron Shapiro, Steve Schram and Judd Lifschitz have all been selected as SuperLawyers by Law and Politics?
The SLS office building is an historic townhouse constructed in the late 1800s?
SLS has been selected by Martindale-Hubbell as a Preeminent Law Firm?
SLS trial lawyers have argued appeals in the U.S. Circuit Courts of Appeal for the 4th, 5th, 9th, D.C. and Federal Circuit?
SLS trial lawyers have been lead trial counsel in cases in Arizona, California, District of Columbia, Florida, Louisiana, Maryland, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Oregon, Texas, and Virginia, - to name just a few?
Virtually all the cases that SLS trial lawyers mediated have been favorably settled at mediation?

The transactional group at SLS was lead counsel on one of the largest, most complex mixed-use projects in downtown Washington, DC involving 4 lenders and 6 property owners?

In appreciation for the outstanding efforts of each of its employees during 2007, SLS gave everyone (attorneys, paralegals, and staff) a 4 day/3 night expense paid trip to Key West, Florida?
The transactional group at SLS has represented tenants in more than 200 retail leases in the Mid-Atlantic region?
Every attorney in the transactional group at SLS has at least 15 years experience?
The transactional group at SLS has represented developers in the purchase, construction, financing and/or sale of more than 75 multi-family apartment projects?
The transactional group at SLS has represented real estate investors and developers with respect to property in Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Delaware, Maryland, the District of Columbia, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Texas, Tennessee, Michigan and the U.S. Virginia Islands?
Attorneys in the transactional group at SLS have represented eight national banks in commercial real estate loans?
Attorneys in the transactional group at SLS have represented the FDIC, the Resolution Trust Corporation and several banking institutions in loan workout transactions throughout the Mid-Atlantic region?
The transactional group at SLS has represented homebuilders and commercial real estate developers in work-outs of individual loans and also for work-outs of large portfolios involving dozens of properties in several states?
The trial lawyers of SLS have numerous reported decisions to their credit?