Shapiro Haber & Urmy LLP has a general litigation practice. We represent individuals and businesses who have been hurt by corporate fraud or by unfair business, employment or insurance practices. The firm has been awarded the "AV" rating by the Martindale-Hubbell Law Directory, which is given only to those who have earned a very high measure of professional esteem and have adhered to the highest ethical standards in this profession.

We have successfully represented shareholders in securities fraud class action suits, consumers and businesses in unfair business practice cases and employees in unlawful employment practice cases. Partners in the firm are among the few in the field who have conducted jury trials in securities fraud class actions and won multimillion dollar verdicts.

Thomas G. Shapiro

Education:

• 1965, B.A. magna cum laude, Harvard College
• 1969, J.D. cum laude, Harvard Law School

Bar Admissions:

• Commonwealth of Massachusetts
• United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts
• United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
• Supreme Court of the United States

Teaching:

• Faculty member on securities litigation panels sponsored by the Practicing Law Institute, ALI-ABA, Massachusetts Continuing Legal Education, Massachusetts Academy of Trial Attorneys and the Boston Bar Association
• Lecturer on securities litigation issues for the American Corporate Counsel Association and at a NASDAQ
• Financial Executive Conference for senior officers of NASDAQ companies
• Faculty of the Flaschner Judicial Institute's seminar for Massachusetts Superior Court judges on the Trial and Management of Complex Cases

Publications:

• "Depositions in Class Actions" in Massachusetts Deposition Practice Manual, published by Massachusetts Continuing Legal Education, 1992
• "Securities Litigation in the Aftermath of In Re Data Access Securities Litigation," 24 New. Eng. L. Rev. 537 (1990)

Professional Associations:

• Former Chairman of the Federal Practice Committee of the Massachusetts Bar Association
• Member, National Association of Securities and Commercial Attorneys
• Member, Massachusetts and Boston Bar Associations

Honors:

• Mr. Shapiro was named a 2005 Super Lawyer in Massachusetts
   

Edward F. Haber

Education:

• 1966, B.A., Cornell University
• 1969, J.D. cum laude, Harvard Law School

Bar Admissions:

• Commonwealth of Massachusetts
• Supreme Court of the United States
• United States Courts of Appeals For the First and Seventh Circuits
• United States District Courts for the Districts of Massachusetts, the Central District of Illinois and the Eastern District of Michigan

Teaching:

• 1969-70, Boston College Law School
• 1988, 1990, Faculty of the New England Federal Securities Regulation Institute, sponsored by the American Law Institute/American Bar Association Committee on Continuing Professional Education
• 1992, Faculty of the Massachusetts Bar Association's seminar on the Fundamentals of Securities Arbitration

Professional Associations:

• Member, Massachusetts Bar Association
• Member, National Association of Securities and Commercial Attorneys

Honors:

• Mr. Haber was named a 2005 Super Lawyer in Massachusetts
   

Thomas V. Urmy, Jr.

Education:

• 1960, B.A. cum laude, Amherst College
• 1964, L.L.B., Yale Law School

Bar Admissions:

• Commonwealth of Massachusetts
• United States District Courts for the District of Massachusetts and the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York
• United States Courts of Appeals for the First, Second, Third, Ninth and District of Columbia Circuits

Professional Associations:

• Boston Bar Association
• Massachusetts Bar Association
   

Michelle H. Blauner

Education:

• 1983, B.A. with highest distinction, Cornell University
• 1986, J.D. cum laude, Harvard Law School

Bar Admissions:

• Commonwealth of Massachusetts
• United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts
• Court of Appeals for the First Circuit

Publications:

• "Securities Litigation in the Aftermath of In Re Data Access Securities Litigation," 24 New. Eng. L. Rev. 537(1990)

Teaching:

• May 2002, Faculty, "The Life Cycle of a Class Action," sponsored by the Litigation Section of the Boston Bar Association

Professional Associations:

• Massachusetts Bar Association
• Boston Bar Association

Matthew L. Tuccillo

Education:

• 1995, B.A., Wesleyan University
• 1999, J.D., Georgetown University Law Center

Bar Admissions:

• Commonwealth of Massachusetts
• United States District Court, District of Massachusetts

Publications:

• Co-author, "Pharmaceutical Pricing Litigation: Review and Update," in Massachusetts Counting Legal Education's Health & Hospital Law Conference (March 8, 2002)
• Co-author, "Amended Federal Rule of Evidence 902(11): Streamlined Authentication of Business Records," in Boston Bar Association Criminal Law Section Newsletter (2000)
• Co-author, "Direct Contacts with Employees of a Corporation Represented by Counsel Pursuant to Mass Rules of Prof 'l Conduct R.4.2: The Changing Landscape in the Wake of the District Court Opinion in In re: Criminal Investigation of John Doe, Inc., et al." in Boston Bar Association Criminal Law Section Newsletter (2000) 

Professional Associations:

• American Bar Association
• Massachusetts Bar Association
• Boston Bar Association, Class Action Committee
• Association of Trial Lawyers of America
   

Adam M. Stewart

Education:

• 2001, B.S. magna cum laude, Northeastern University
• 2004, J.D. magna cum laude, Suffolk University Law School, Production Editor, Suffolk University Law Review

Clerkships:

• 2004-2005, judicial clerk to the Justices of the Massachusetts Superior Court

Bar Admissions:

• Commonwealth of Massachusetts
• United States District Court, District of Massachusetts

Professional Associations:

• Member, Massachusetts Bar Association
• Member, American Bar Association
   

Robert E. Ditzion

Education:

• 1996, B.A. cum laude, Harvard College
• 2004, J.D. magna cum laude, Georgetown University Law Center

Clerkships:

• 2004-2005, law clerk to the Honorable James Robertson, U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia

Bar Admissions:

• Commonwealth of Massachusetts
• United States District Court, District of Columbia
• United States District Court, District of Massachusetts
• United States Court of Appeals, District of Columbia Circuit

Publications:

• Note, Electronic Surveillance in the Internet Age: The Strange Case of Pen Registers, 41 Am. Crim. L. Rev. 1321 (2004)
• Co-Author, Eighteenth Survey of White Collar Crime: Computer Crimes, 40 Am. Crim. L. Rev. 285 (2003)

Professional Associations:

• Member, American Bar Association