Jonathan Shapiro (2)

Jonathan Shapiro is formerly of Counsel at Kirkland Ellis and Chairman of the California Commission on Government Oversight and Efficiency. A graduate of Harvard University and Oxford University, where he was a Rhodes Scholar, he received his law degree from the University of California Berkeley vis mere School of Law. After 10 years as a federal prosecutor, he has spent the last 16 writing and producing television series including The Blacklist, Life, The Firm, The Practice, and Boston Legal, for which he received a Peabody Award and two Humanitas awards. Shapiro also created, wrote, and was the show-runner for three of his own short-lived series. Shapiro taught as an adjunct law professor at the USC School of Law and is the founding Director of the Public Counsel Emergency Fund for Torture Victims. He recently won an Emmy at the 2014 National Capital Chesapeake Bay Chapter's Emmy awards for his first short film, Fair and Free, based on his own script and narrated by associate Justice Sandra Day O'Connor. He is also the author of the novel Deadly Force, published by Ankerwycke Books in February 2016. vis mindre