‏Jonathan Shapiro‏

Jonathan Shapiro has spent the last 16 years writing and producing some of television's most iconic shows, including The Blacklist, The Practice, Life and Boston Legal. An Emmy, Peabody, and Humanitas Awards winner, he and David E. Kelley are the creators and executive producers of Goliath, a legal thriller set to air on Amazon in 2016. In addition to his work in television, Shapiro is also the author of two recent books: the memoir "Liars, Lawyers, and the Art of Storytelling" (ABA Publishing) and the novel "Deadly Force," the first installment in the Lizzie Scott series for Ankerwycke Press. For the last two years, he was was Of Counsel for litigation at the Kirkland & Ellis law firm.

Prior to writing for television, Jonathan spent a decade as a federal prosecutor and as an adjunct law professor at Loyola Law School and the University of Southern California's Gould School of Law. He is a member and the former chairman of the California Commission on Government Economy and Efficiency, as well as the founder and director of the Public Counsel Emergency for Torture Victims. He is a graduate of Harvard University, a Rhodes scholar at Oriel College, Oxford University, and he received his law degree from the University of California, Berkeley.