Shapiro Sher’s Ronald M. Shapiro ranks first out of 400 speakers at the 2011 Association of Finance Professionals conference in Boston. Other speakers include former President Bill Clinton and NBA legend Bill Russell.

Mr. Shapiro led an educational session on “Negotiaton and Influencing Techniques for Getting the Deal Done,” which taught a systematic process to negotiating with suppliers, vendors, customers and peers. He scored the highest, both for the session and in the individual speaker scores. In addition to former President Clinton and the NBA’s Bill Russell, other speakers included CNN senior political analyst David Gergen and approximately 400 others.

In addition to founding Shapiro Sher Guinot & Sandler, Mr. Shapiro is also Chairman of Shapiro Negotiations Institute.

Shapiro Sher partner Matthew Esworthy serves as moderator of a program titled, “A Comprehensive View of Where Cyber Crime is Heading in 2012,” sponsored by the Criminal Justice Section of the American Bar Association at its 2012 meeting in New Orleans.

The American College of Trial Lawyers publishes in its most recent Bulletin magazine an address by Shapiro Sher partner Paul Mark Sandler.

In the speech, Mr. Sandler talks about his meeting with U.S. Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall and its impact on his choice of career.

K. Lee Riley, Jr., as Chair of the Uniform Commercial Code Subcommittee of the Business Law Section of the MD State Bar Association, testifies before the Maryland House of Delegates regarding amendments to Articles 1 and 9 of the Maryland Uniform Commercial Code.

Mr. Riley testified in support of House Bills 700 and 713, which would update the Maryland Uniform Commericial Code to make it consistent with the most recent versions of the federal UCC, as developed by the Uniform Law Commission in conjunction with the American Law Institute.