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Sapir Shoshan

Sapir C. Shoshan Associate

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Richmond T +1 804 775 1112 F fax +1 804 698 2012
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Sapir focuses her practice on high-stake product liability matters representing corporate defendants. Sapir predominately works as a trial attorney, analyzing complex issues of law and bringing unique litigation perspective to her corporate clients across the country.  She has substantial experience in all phases of motions practice and trial preparation. She has extensive experience drafting and arguing motions in limine; deposing critical witnesses; drafting dispositive motions and motions for a directed verdict; and preparing cases for trial.

Sapir served as trial counsel for an electric utility company in a two-week premises liability trial. There, she argued pretrial motions, deposed key witnesses, prepared trial examinations of witnesses, and drafted key motions both before and during trial. Additionally, Sapir manages key cases for clients, handling discovery and pre-trial matters.

Sapir served as the first judicial law clerk to United States Magistrate Judge Summer L. Speight in the Eastern District of Virginia.

During law school, Sapir served as the chancellor of the McNeill Law Society and was a manuscript editor on the University of Richmond Law Review. She also worked as a judicial intern for the Honorable Stefan R. Underhill, in the United States District Court for the District of Connecticut, and as a research assistant for Professor Andrew Spalding, where she assisted in the drafting of a Contracts textbook.

Experience

  • Represents a leading automaker in products liability cases including product defect cases and cases concerning the use of asbestos in friction products.
  • Represents a medical device manufacturer in product liability cases.
  • Representation of a major financial institution facing miscellaneous trust claims.