Bryan N. Shapiro

Bryan N. Shapiro practices in the area of litigation and is a member of the firm's Antitrust and Non-Compete and Trade Secrets divisions. His extensive experience includes highly complex, multiparty, and multidistrict litigations to straightforward single-party disputes in expedited and nonexpedited proceedings in both federal and state courts nationwide. Mr. Shapiro has successfully represented financial institutions and portfolio companies, as well as clients in the sports and athletics industry, all areas of the healthcare industry—including hospitals, providers, pharmaceutical manufacturers, and medical device manufacturers and suppliers—and in the telecommunications, transportation, and construction industries. He also has experience counseling employers on a range of employee-related matters, including noncompetition agreements and restrictive covenants, and representing clients and employers in commercial and business tort disputes, with an emphasis on noncompetition agreements and restrictive covenants, trade secrets, and unfair competition litigation. 

In addition to his extensive litigation experience, Mr. Shapiro utilizes his background as a former collegiate basketball player to counsel various stakeholders in the sports industry and author articles providing insight on the wide range of issues affecting professional and collegiate sports, including name, image, and likeness (NIL) rights and the implications on scholarships and revenue for students and schools. He also regularly analyzes state and international legislation, rules, and regulations to assess sports betting and daily fantasy sports advertisement requirements for sports betting and daily fantasy operators and affiliated marketing entities. 

Prior to joining his firm, Mr. Shapiro served as a law clerk to the Hon. Cynthia M. Rufe of the US District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. 

Mr. Shapiro is a 2020 magna cum laude graduate of the Temple University Beasley School of Law, where he was a note/comment editor for the Temple Law Review and elected to the Order of the Coif, as well as a magna cum laude graduate of Washington College.