Jonathan Shapiro

Practice Areas

Class Actions; Discrimination and Harassment; Executive Compensation; Financial Services; Unfair Competition and Trade Secrets; Wage and Hour

Career

Jonathan Shapiro has extensive experience in employment, labor and employee benefits law, and litigation. He represents employers before state and federal courts across the country in complex wage-and-hour class and collective actions and cases that involve discrimination, retaliation, wrongful termination, and other employment matters.

Shapiro has defended executives in white-collar criminal investigations and litigation. In addition, he counsels employers on various issues concerning employment law compliance and managing a workforce, including wage and hour compliance and exemption classification; payroll practices and personnel policies and practices; hiring and termination of employees; audits and investigations, and employment agreements and severance packages for executives.

Professional Memberships

American Bar Association - Labor & Employment Law Section; District of Columbia Bar; Maine State Bar Association; Massachusetts Bar Association; New York State Bar Association

Publications

Model Policies and Forms for Maine Employers, American Chamber of Commerce Resources, 2016-2017

Personal

J.D., Duke University School of Law, With Honors; B.A., McGill University, with distinction