Virtual Meeting: Liabilities Involving Volunteer Management
October 16, 2024
Join your fellow COVA members for October's virtual member meeting with Lori Shapiro of Pro Bono Partnership. Learn more about the legal issues volunteer administrators face and how to navigate them.
Lori Shapiro
Senior Employment Counsel
Lori joined Pro Bono Partnership of Atlanta in July 2014. As a part-time staff attorney for Pro Bono Partnership, Lori provides direct legal services to nonprofit organizations in addition to serving as a resource to Pro Bono Partnership’s volunteer attorneys and nonprofit clients, and educating lawyers and clients on employment-related legal issues.
Prior to joining Pro Bono Partnership, Lori practiced labor, employment and benefits law for more than 20 years, both as a law firm partner and as in-house corporate counsel. As an associate and then a partner at Kilpatrick Stockton, LLP, she represented national and international corporate clients in all aspects of employment law and litigation. Starting in 2000, she moved her career in-house, first as General Counsel for Employment Learning Innovations, Inc. (“ELI”), a training company that provided labor and employment law training courses, and then as labor, employment and benefits counsel with Graphic Packaging International, Inc., an international paperboard packaging company. Throughout her career, Lori has had the opportunity to assist clients with a wide variety of corporate legal matters, including matters involving labor and employment law and litigation, employee benefits, intellectual property, licensing (including software licensing), non-compete and confidentiality agreements, OSHA issues, and general contracting.
In addition to her experience teaching her corporate clients about the law in her in-house positions, Lori served as an adjunct professor, teaching labor law classes, in the Employment Law LLM program at Atlanta’s John Marshall Law School for two years. She currently serves on the board of The Breman Jewish Heritage and Holocaust Museum, and has previously served on nonprofit boards throughout her career.
Lori received her J.D. degree from New York University School of Law. She graduated from Brandeis University cum laude with a B.A. in Politics and European Cultural Studies. She lives in Marietta with her husband, Cary Goldenthal, who is a Vice President with Aetna, her two children, and her dog, a schnoodle named Star.
