Amy E. Serino Associate

Amy E. Serino concentrates her practice in media and intellectual property law.  As a trial attorney, she represents a wide variety of media clients in defamation, privacy, access, trademark and copyright actions.  She has appeared before state and federal trial courts and courts of appeal. 

Amy also provides pre-publication review and business counsel to media clients, including regional and national magazines, newspapers, broadcasters, and book publishers.  She staffs the firm’s hotline for the 450 daily and weekly newspapers that comprise the New England Press Association, providing legal advice to writers, editors and publishers throughout New England.  She regularly advises the firm’s clients on matters ranging from freelance contracts to reporter’s privilege to freedom of information requests.

Amy's interest in the business and legal problems of media clients began during her college years, as an undergraduate at Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism.  While there, she focused her studies on print media and worked as a reporter and copy editor at a daily newspaper.  During law school, Amy served as articles editor of The George Washington Law Review, and taught a course on legal research methods.

Prior to joining Prince Lobel, Amy was a law clerk to the Honorable Jeffrey R. Howard of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit from 2002 to 2004.  Before her clerkship, Amy spent three years as a litigator at a large national law firm in Boston, specializing in complex commercial litigation.

Since 2005, Amy has been selected as a Massachusetts "Rising Star" attorney as featured in Boston magazine.

Bar Admissions

• Massachusetts
• United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts
• United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit

Education

• George Washington University Law School, J.D., with high honors, 1999
• Northwestern University, B.S., 1996

Noteworthy

• 2005-2009: Selected as a Massachusetts "Rising Star" in the area of First Amendment/Media/Advertising, as featured in Boston magazine.

Memberships

• Massachusetts Bar Association
• Media Law Resource Center