Amy Shapiro

Amy Shapiro is a member of Hinman, Howard and Kattell’s Commercial Litigation, Business and Appellate practice groups. Her practice focuses on complex commercial litigation, with an emphasis on motion practice and appeals.

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 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 is the past president of VINES (Volunteers Improving Neighborhood Environments, Inc.), which runs 22 community gardens in the greater Binghamton area, a large urban farm and Binghamton’s first net-zero commercial building 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.

Publications

'Who Pays the Auditor Calls the Tune?: Auditing Regulation and Clients' Incentives,' 35 Seton Hall Law Review 1029 (June 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).