Amy Hayes

Amy joined The Jacob D. Fuchsberg Law Firm as an associate attorney in April 17, 2025. Born in Buffalo, New York, Amy has had a lifelong interest in serving her community and promoting individuals’ rights.

Prior to joining the firm, Amy worked representing union retirement funds in securities and derivative litigations, holding powerful corporate actors accountable. Amy has fought against corporate leadership for concealing known safety issues related to contaminated baby formula and supported litigation arising from a company’s failure to consider a product’s link to cancer. Previously, Amy clerked with the Honorable Jane Restani at the Court of International Trade.

During her time at Harvard Law School, Amy joined Health Law and Policy Clinic, where she worked with a team advising the future Biden administration on strategies to expand Medicaid and creating risk-management strategies for upcoming Supreme Court cases. She also was involved International Human Rights Clinic, where she helped draft and revise “Facing Fallout: Principles of Environmental Remediation of Nuclear Weapons Contamination,” in cooperation with The Conflict and Environment Observatory (CEOBS), which was presented at the First Meeting of State Parties to the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons in Vienna, June 2023, and adopted in July 2019, by the UN International Law Commission (ILC), addressing the Protection of the Environment in Relation to Armed Conflicts (PERAC). During her studies, Amy also served as a member of the Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review as an article selection editor, as a member of both the Women’s Law Association and the National Disability Law Students Association.

Before her career in law, Amy worked in educational media and publishing. She was the Associate Director of Content for Public Broadcasting Service’s LearningMedia and edited children’s books for Cavendish Square Publishing. She has written several civic-minded books for children including Court is in Session: Courts of Appeals and The Disability Rights Movement.

In her spare time, Amy loves exploring her neighborhood in Brooklyn, record-store diving, and cuddling up with her cats, Niles and Triona.