Amy Shapiro | Special Counsel
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About Amy
Amy is also active in estate litigation, bankruptcy, and transactional work. Among her reported decisions are Miller v. Am. Capital, Ltd. (In re Newstarcom Holdings, Inc.), 547 B.R. 106 (Bankr. D. Del. 2016); Matter of Abraham XX., 11 N.Y.3d 429 (2008); Matter of Stafford, 111 A.D.3d 1216 (3d Dept. 2013); Kamp v Fiumera, 69 A.D.3d 1168 (3d Dept. 2010).
Amy is a former journalist who worked in Los Angeles, Denver, and Lima, Peru. Amy also served as attorney advisor to Commissioner Terry Calvani, U.S. Federal Trade Commission, before joining Hinman, Howard & Kattell in 1990.
Amy also has taught extensively, teaching classes at Cornell Law School (secured transactions), Syracuse University College of Law (civil procedure and commercial law), Binghamton University, and the University of East Anglia, Norwich, England, where she was a visiting fellow.
Amy is Board member, donor development committee chair and past president of VINES (Volunteers Improving Neighborhood Environments, Inc.), which runs 13 community gardens in the greater Binghamton area and a large urban farm in downtown Binghamton, not far from our office. She was the founding president of the West Side Neighborhood Association and served previously as Treasurer of Cornell Cooperative Extension of Broome County and as President and Treasurer of the Broome County Arts Council.
Admission
New York
1989
Education
Oxford University
B.C.L.
2003
Pomona College
B.A.
1975
Recognitions & Achievements
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New York State Bar Association
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Broome County Bar Association
Notable Work
"Who Pays the Auditor Calls the Tune?: Auditing Regulation and Clients' Incentives," 35 Seton Hall Law Review (June )
1029 / 2005
"Legal Causation and the Desert Traveler," in John Arthur and William H. Shaw, eds., Readings in the Philosophy of Law, 4th Edition (Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, ).
2004
Hinman, Howard & Kattell, LLP Highlights
Real Estate, Elder Law, Environmental Law Other, Land Use & Zoning, DUI-DWI