Amy Beth Royal - Partner

ARoyal@royalllp.com

Amy Royal is the founding partner of Royal LLP and is the head of the law firm’s Litigation Group.  Amy has successfully defended employers in a variety of areas of employment law, including employment discrimination and sexual harassment, unfair competition, breach of contract and wrongful discharge claims, and Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA), Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) and Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) violations, with a special emphasis in wage and hour class actions. Amy also regularly advises non-union clients on maintaining a union-free workplace and performs other preventive work such as wage and hour law compliance, recordkeeping audits, drafting of employee manuals and affirmative action plans, and management training.  Amy also works with unionized clients by assisting them during negotiations, managing employee grievances, and representing them at arbitration.  

      
Amy has nearly twelve years experience in private and public section employer-side representation.  She began her career in the public sector as an Assistant Attorney General with the Office of the Attorney General defending the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in matters that included employment claims.  Upon entering private practice ten years ago, she has exclusively concentrated her practice in management-side labor and employment law.  Amy previously served as a judicial intern for the Honorable Lawrence E. Kahn in the United States District Court, Northern District of New York. 

Amy received a Bachelor of Arts degree in both English and History from Smith College in 1997.  In 2000, she earned her Juris Doctor from Albany Law School of Union University where she served as the Executive Editor for the Albany Law Review.  She is the author of The Parameters of the Substantial Justification Test as Established by the Supreme Court in Lunding v. New York Tax Appeals Tribunal, 63 Alb. L. Rev. 657 (1999). 

Amy’s accolades include Business West's prestigious "40 under Forty" award recognizing her for outstanding leadership in the Pioneer Valley business community.  Amy serves on the Board of Directors of the Center for Human Development where she chairs its Governance Committee.  She is the Vice Chairperson of the Board of Directors of the United Way of Hampshire County.   She also serves on the Board of Directors of both Human Resources Unlimited and Aditus, Inc.  For a number of years, Amy served as Treasurer and Secretary of the Executive Board of the Franklin County Bar Association and chaired its Continuing Legal Education Committee.  In addition, she is a former Trustee of The MacDuffie School, the former Chair of the Human Rights Committee of Aditus, Inc. and previously served on the Board of Directors of Child and Family Service of Pioneer Valley Inc.  Amy is a volunteer for the program "Girl Scouts of Today, Lawyers of Tomorrow" and for several years, was an Adjunct Professor at Elms College in the Business and Law Department.  She is a frequent speaker for a wide variety of associations and organizations and has authored numerous articles on employment-related legal topics.  Amy is admitted to practice in both the state and federal courts in Massachusetts and Connecticut as well as federal court in Vermont. 

Admitted	Massachusetts, January 2001 United States District Court, Massachusetts, 2001 United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, 2003 Connecticut, 2003 United States District Court, Connecticut, 2003 United States District Court, Vermont, 2005 United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, 2009
Education	J.D., Albany Law School of Union University,   Albany, New York B.A., Smith College, Northampton,   Massachusetts
Affiliations	American Bar Association, Labor & Employment Law Section Member Massachusetts Bar Association, Labor & Employment Law Section Member   Connecticut Bar Association Hampden County Bar Association Hampshire County Bar Association Franklin County Bar Association
Volunteer Activities	Member, Board of Directors, Center for Human Development, Inc. Vice Chairperson, Board of Directors, United Way of Hampshire County Member, Board of Directors, Human Resources Unlimited, Inc. Member, Board of Directors, Aditus, Inc.
Published Works	"The Parameters of the Substantial Justification Test as Established by the Supreme Court in Lunding v. New York Tax Appeals Tribunal, " 63 Alb. L. Rev. 657 (1999)

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