David Shapiro left a well-known Phoenix firm to practice exclusively as a plaintiff’s personal-injury attorney, growing his own firm from one employee to roughly fifty while reporting more than $80 million resolved for over 1,500 clients.
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AT A GLANCE
| FIRM Shapiro Law Team (formerly David Shapiro Law) | FOUNDED ~2017–2019 (sources vary); Phoenix, Arizona |
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| FOUNDER David C. Shapiro (B.A. cum laude, University of Arizona, 2007; J.D., ASU, 2010) | BAR ADMISSION Arizona (2010) and New Mexico |
| PRACTICE FOCUS Exclusively plaintiff-side personal injury, since Shapiro’s first day of practice (per the firm) | PHOENIX OFFICE 4203 E Indian School Rd, Ste 300, Phoenix, AZ 85018 |
| SIGNATURE EDGE Grew from one employee to roughly 50 while its founder still personally works every case, per the firm | RECOGNITION Phoenix Business Journal, “40 Under 40” (2025) |
| REPORTED RESULTS More than $80,000,000 resolved for over 1,500 clients (firm-reported) | CONTACT (480) 680-0783 · shapirolawteam.com |
David Shapiro’s professional biography makes an unusually specific claim: that he has practiced exclusively as a plaintiff’s personal-injury attorney since the day he started practicing law, without ever having represented a defendant or an insurer. After gaining early experience at a well-known Phoenix firm following law school, he set out on his own, and the firm he built now reports roughly 50 employees and more than $80 million resolved for over 1,500 clients.
This profile covers Shapiro’s background, what the firm handles across Phoenix, Scottsdale, and Mesa, how it presents its results, and what its clients say about a firm whose own marketing emphasizes that Shapiro still works every case personally.
Origin: An Arizona Native Who Chose One Side and Stayed There
A Scottsdale native, David Shapiro earned his B.A. cum laude from the University of Arizona in 2007, along with a certificate in entrepreneurship from the university’s McGuire Center for Entrepreneurship. He attended Arizona State University’s Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law from 2007 to 2010, gaining practical experience through a criminal-practice clinic and clerkships with Superior Court judges in Maricopa County, and was admitted to the Arizona bar in 2010.
Immediately after law school, Shapiro gained experience at a well-known Phoenix firm before leaving, per his own biography, to advocate exclusively for personal-injury victims — founding what became Shapiro Law Team. Reported case citations from his practice include Mendoza v. City of Peoria (9th Cir.) and Gonzalez v. MAT Construction, Inc. (Arizona Court of Appeals, 2017), both publicly available appellate records rather than firm-reported claims.
What Shapiro Law Team Handles
- Car, motorcycle, and trucking accidents (per the firm)
- Medical malpractice and birth injury (per the firm)
- Product liability (per the firm)
- Nursing-home abuse and neglect (per the firm)
- Slip-and-fall and premises-liability claims (per the firm)
- Traumatic brain and spinal-cord injury (per the firm)
- Dog bites and wrongful death (per the firm)
The firm advertises no upfront fees or costs, 24/7 consultations, and virtual appointments, and states that Shapiro personally works every case the firm accepts rather than delegating exclusively to associates. The firm has since expanded its footprint to Albuquerque, New Mexico, where Shapiro is also licensed.
Track Record
Per the firm’s own published materials, Shapiro Law Team has resolved more than $80,000,000 on behalf of more than 1,500 clients since its founding. Awesome Attorneys did not locate an itemized, case-by-case results page in the sources reviewed for this profile.
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In Their Clients’ Words
Public reviews on Yelp and elsewhere repeatedly name David Shapiro personally, alongside staff identified as Shauna, for direct involvement and follow-through. One recurring theme in reviews is that Shapiro pushed for settlements well above an insurer’s initial offer; another is that clients felt personally attended to rather than routed through a large case-management pool, consistent with the firm’s own marketing about Shapiro’s hands-on approach.
Recognition
David Shapiro was named to the Phoenix Business Journal’s “40 Under 40” list in 2025. He is a member of the Arizona Association for Justice, the American Association for Justice, the American Bar Association, and the Maricopa County Bar Association.
The Arizona Legal Backdrop
What follows is general legal information about Arizona law, not legal advice. Arizona’s general statute of limitations for personal injury and wrongful death claims is two years (A.R.S. § 12-542), though a discovery-rule exception can apply in some medical-malpractice and birth-injury cases. Claims against a government entity instead require a Notice of Claim within 180 days (A.R.S. § 12-821.01) and suit within one year (A.R.S. § 12-821). Arizona is a pure comparative-negligence state (A.R.S. § 12-2505).
This section is general legal information about Arizona statutes, not legal advice, and may not reflect changes after July 2026. Anyone with a potential injury claim should consult a licensed Arizona attorney promptly.
The Awesome Attorneys Assessment
Shapiro Law Team’s central claim — a founder who has never represented anyone but injured plaintiffs, and who still personally works every case even as the firm has grown to roughly 50 people — is a genuine differentiator if it holds at the firm’s current scale, and its client reviews are consistent with that story. Its growth from one employee to a Phoenix, Scottsdale, Mesa, and now Albuquerque footprint in under a decade is fast even by this series’ standards, and prospective clients should weigh that pace of growth against the firm’s promise of personal attention as it continues to scale.
METHODOLOGY & SOURCING
This profile was compiled from publicly available sources, including the firm’s own website (shapirolawteam.com / shapirolawaz.com) and David Shapiro’s attorney biography; third-party legal directories (Lexinter, Avvo); press coverage (Arizona Foothills Magazine); publicly available appellate case citations; and business and consumer listings (Yelp, LinkedIn). Recovery figures, growth statistics, and awards are the firm’s own published claims or named third-party recognitions and are attributed as such. Client review themes are paraphrased from publicly posted reviews rather than reproduced verbatim. All figures, dates, and credentials should be re-verified against primary sources prior to publication.
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