Nina Shapirshteyn | San Francisco and San Jose, CA Accident & Injury Attorney

Ms Nina Shapirshteyn

Ms Nina Shapirshteyn

Language(s): English|Ukrainian|Russian

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About Nina

Nina Shapirshteyn has devoted her career to fighting for victims who have suffered serious injuries due to the negligence of others. She litigates wrongful death, product liability, motor vehicle, and insurance bad faith cases against powerful corporations, insurance companies, and individual defendants. Ms. Shapirshteyn's representation has resulted in numerous multimillion dollar recoveries for her clients with traumatic brain injuries and other catastrophic injuries.

In recognition of her achievements, Ms. Shapirshteyn was honored as a Northern California Super Lawyers Rising Star, in 2013 and 2014 an honor limited to only 2.5 percent of the attorneys under the age of 40. In 2015 and 2016 she was selected as a Northern California Super Lawyer which is only given to the top 5% of all lawyers in California.

She was selected as a Trial Lawyer of the Year by the San Francisco Trial Lawyers Association for her work as lead counsel in the Kuhlmann v Ethicon-Endo Surgery, LLC, Johnson & Johnson Health Care Services, et al. in which a jury awarded $79.8 million making this the largest verdict in the State of California in 2015 as well as 18th in the nation.

Ms. Shapirshteyn is admitted to practice in California and New York.

Nina Shapirshteyn is a partner in the Alexander Law Group. She was born in Ukraine and speaks Russian fluently.

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Experience

Partner

Alexander Law Group, LLP

Present

San Jose, CA

Admission

Verified New York

2009

Verified California

2007

Education

University of California San Diego

Bachelors

2003

Recognitions & Achievements

Associations
  • San Francisco Trial Lawyers Association
  • Consumer Attorneys of California
  • Santa Clara County Trial Lawyers Association
Honors / Awards
  • Certificate of Appreciation Plaintiff Magazine
    2017
  • Super Lawyer Super Lawyers
    2017
  • Trial Lawyer of the Year San Francisco Trial Lawyers Association
    2016
  • Super Lawyer Super Lawyers
    2016
  • Top Verdicts of Daily Journal
    2015 / 2015

Notable Work

Publications

Plaintiff's Magazine Precluding the corporate defendant’s in-house specialists from testifying as experts

2017


Plaintiff Magazine (California) Behind the Ethicon Endo-Surgery $70 million punitive damages award

2016


Plaintiff Magazine (California) Fighting Section 409 in dangerous condition of public property cases

2014


Alexander Law Group LLP Highlights

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