Rachel Shapiro

Rachel Shapiro represents clients in a wide range of complex commercial litigation matters in arbitration and before state and federal courts, including antitrust, contractual, shareholder derivative, and general commercial disputes.

Rachel brings hands-on trial and advocacy experience to her practice. She has first-chaired depositions of claimant-witnesses in antitrust arbitrations concerning the financial services industry. 

Rachel is also committed to pro bono work, including asylum and civil rights matters.  While at Harvard Law School, she successfully argued a summary judgment motion in U.S. District Court in a FOIA lawsuit against DHS and ICE as a student attorney with the Harvard Immigration & Refugee Clinic.  She also contributed to international justice efforts as a legal intern at the Clooney Foundation for Justice, where she produced legal research on war crimes and crimes against humanity under international law.

Before joining Holwell Shuster & Goldberg, Rachel was a litigation associate at Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP.