Early Life and Education
Shapiro attended Yeshiva University High Schools of Los Angeles. He then enrolled at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), majoring in political science, and graduating summa cum laude in 2004. At UCLA, Shapiro lived off-campus. He also wrote a column for the Daily Bruin student newspaper at UCLA from 2000 to 2002. The Daily Bruin suspended Shapiro after he complained on radio talk shows that the newspaper refused to print his column accusing Muslim student groups of supporting terrorism. Shapiro was hired at age 17 to become the youngest nationally syndicated columnist in the country by Creators Syndicate. He received his Juris Doctor (J.D.), cum laude, from Harvard Law School in 2007. He briefly practiced law at the Los Angeles office of Goodwin Procter LLP, and was a Vice President at Talk Radio Network. He now does independent legal consulting for major media clients.
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