Jay Shapiro is a 1990 graduate of the University of California Los Angeles, a 2001 graduate of U.C. Berkeley's Boalt Hall School of Law and received a Masters in American Indian Studies at UCLA in 2006.  He has been a member of the California State Bar since 2003, completed a judicial clerkship with the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals and has been with Forman & Associates since 2006, focusing primarily on litigation for tribal governments and business entities.