Amy’s practice involves national property tax compliance and defense work relating to property taxation. She also counsels not-for-profit entities providing critical services to individuals with special needs and disabilities on regulatory compliance and tax exemption matters and defends these organizations in the event of alleged legal violations, both civil and criminal.
Amy concentrates her practice on representing businesses, energy and utility clients, and individuals in property tax, eminent domain, and land use disputes. She routinely assists energy and utility clients in negotiating tax-assessment reductions where the portfolio of assets is located in multiple states, resulting in substantial property tax savings. Amy also routinely advises clients in eminent domain proceedings, from preliminary hearing stages to trials involving the acquisition of real property interests, trade fixtures, and leasehold rights.
Amy also represents health care not-for-profits, including agencies serving individuals with developmental disabilities, mental illnesses, alcohol use disorder, and other substance use disorders. She routinely counsels not-for-profits with tax exemption matters, including negotiation of payment in lieu of tax (PILOT) agreements in affordable housing deals, as well as health care not-for-profits with response to Medicaid, daycare revocation, and other government investigations and audits as well as related employment and contract matters.