Jim "The Hammer" Shapiro is a well-known American lawyer and writer in the Rochester and Florida area (as well as some areas in Canada where WUHF Rochester station is available on cable) for aggressive television commercials, as well as for appeals which he sent to the victim of a coma accident.
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Careers
Shapiro graduated from Boston University Law School. He is a member of the New York Bar, and the Plaintiffs Securities Plaintiffs Group. He founded three law firms and has offices in Broward County, Florida; Rochester, Syracuse, and Buffalo, New York.
In the 1990s, Shapiro became controversial for his self-promoting television campaign in which he promised to get a major financial settlement for casualty victims, calling himself "the cruelest, repugnant SOB in the city" and claiming to have "aggressive courtroom skills". Visual ads often include vehicle accidents, falling bodies, Satan, threats of physical violence against defendants, pictures of Doom video games, animals and people hit by trains, and explosions. She also began selling non-profit t-shirts that featured "a ferocious animal with blood dripping from her fangs" and the words "Protected by Vicious S.O.B., Jim The Shapiro Hammer."
Shapiro sold the three law firms and is now writing a book. He is the author of Victim [sic] Maximum Money Rights , Sue the Bastards , Million Dollar Lung , Injuries [sic] Right to Maximum Money , Instant Credit Repair and Get Back All Your Lost Investments! .
In 2007, Shapiro's ads cited by Rochester Democrat and Chronicle as a partial inspiration for a new set of New York District Court system have implemented restrictive lawyer advertisements. The new rules forbid, among other things, nicknames like "The Hammer". The constitutionality of the rule was questioned when Judge Frederick Scullin of the United States District Court for the Northern District of New York permanently ordered several provisions in July 2007.
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In 2002, Christopher Wagner, a former client, sued Shapiro for malpractice. Wagner was injured in a motor vehicle accident in 1995 and has responded to Shapiro's ad. Wagner claimed he had spent $ 182,000 in medical bills, but Shapiro, Shapiro and Shapiro's companies, pushed him to accept a $ 65,000 settlement, promising more money could be obtained in a lawsuit against New York state. However, the state has no obligations and Shapiro never pursues any further action on behalf of Wagner.
In his opinion, suspending Shapiro, the New York Supreme Court, the Appeals Division, found that he "never tried to solve his case [in New York] and has done about 10 deposition." Shapiro had lived in Florida since 1995, overseeing his office in New York from afar. Wagner's lawyer Robert Williams claimed that Shapiro's company in Rochester was run by a lawyer who only took four cases to court. The New York Supreme Court jury found the law firm owned by Shapiro has been involved in misleading advertising and legal malpractice and awarded $ 1.5 million in judgment against Shapiro.
As a result, In 2004 he was suspended from law practice for one year in New York. In 2005 he was also suspended from practicing law for a year in Florida. Shapiro said the decision to delay him training in New York was "unfair and unconstitutional" but claiming the verdict would have little effect because he had sold his office in Rochester and is now promoting books. In December 2004, four additional former clients failed to sue Shapiro for unspecified damage, alleging he had been involved in misleading advertising and legal malpractice.
Philanthropy
Shapiro is known for his philanthropy in Rochester. Since 1996, he has donated $ 7,500 per year to elementary school to buy books. He has indicated that the goal is to include a book worth $ 600,000 to schools within ten years. In 1996, he donated 86,5 hectares (350,000 m 2 ) of $ 800,000 worth of land to Rochester YMCA. He has also donated land in Rochester worth $ 120,000 to use as a park for children.
In popular culture
Dunkin 'Donuts parodied Shapiro in an advertisement for his breakfast menu in 2010, with a voice like Bob "The Bulldozer" Phillips. Phillips mimicked the advertisement "every penny" almost to the letter.
Publications
- Shapiro, J., Sue the Bastards , World Wide Inc. Advertising Consultant, 1997
- Shapiro, J., Victim Rights to Maximum Money ,
- Shapiro, J., Million Dollar Lung
- Shapiro, J., Injury Victim Rights for Maximum Money , 1992
- Shapiro, J., Get Back All Your Lost Investments!
References
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