Mr Shapiro, is a Solicitor Advocate, is a member of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, is accredited as a mediator by CEDR (Britain's Centre for Dispute Resolution), is a member of the Commercial Court's Working Party on ADR, is a member of the Law Society's Commercial Mediation Panel, is former Chairman of The Panel of Independent Mediators (1998-2007), is a member of the Panel of Distinguished Mediators, CPR Institute for Dispute Resolution (New York), and is a Fellow of the International Academy of Mediators. He was formerly Director and Chief Mediator of JAMS Endispute Europe and a Visiting Fellow, Department of Law, London School of Economics and Political Science, where he taught dispute resolution. He was organiser of and lead-off speaker on "Introduction to ADR", part of the Judicial Studies Board's Stage 1 seminars for more than 800 judges in England and Wales, has been a consultant on mediation to the Supreme Commercial Court of the Russian Federation.

Since arriving in the UK in 1996, Mr Shapiro, who has been a mediator for more than 25 years, has successfully resolved more than 250 major disputes in this country and abroad and is generally acknowledged to be one of the most experienced mediators now practicing in the UK and Europe.

Contact at:
Quadrant Chambers, 10 Fleet Street, London, EC4Y 1AU
Tel: 020 7822 1462
Fax: 020 7583 4455

Email: david@shapiroadr.com
Website: www.mediatewithshapiro.com