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 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.