Amy J Traub

Career

As chair of BakerHostetler’s national Labor and Employment Practice Group, Amy Traub has a unique ability to understand how global events and significant changes in the law directly impact her clients and their businesses. With a focus on the management side of employment law matters for clients in an array of industries and with a particular focus on the healthcare and retail industries, she provides practical and timely advice and counsel to help her clients run their businesses more efficiently. Amy is also an experienced employment litigator, and clients turn to her for the most tactical and effective solutions to their multifaceted and complex disputes related to their workforces. She informs clients of the risks involved and remains ever mindful of the inner workings of clients’ businesses with issues related to discrimination, retaliation, wage and hour litigation, class and collective actions, Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) Act-related litigation and Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charges, as well as the more litigious areas that arise in the employer-employee dynamic.

Amy is ranked in Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business as a leader in the field of labor and employment. In recent client feedback interviews, a client shared, “To me Amy is a model of what you want your outside counsel to be and the kind of relationship that you want to have with your attorney. … Amy is everything you want from an outside attorney. She is an extension of our organization, and she knows what we need and like and is aware of how important our brand and reputation are to us. She always talks to us about the pros and cons and how best to manage and mitigate risk. She is the consummate professional and should be applauded for her efforts.”

Amy was also recognized in the 2023 edition of the Legal 500, as a New York Metro Area Super Lawyer and was a national honoree in the Women, Influence & Power in Law Awards by Corporate Counsel and Law.com. In 2022, she was the recipient of BakerHostetler’s Trailblazer Award, an honor designed to recognize a lawyer who has made significant contributions to the firm and the legal profession and who inspires her colleagues through example and achievement.

Amy is solutions-oriented and remains at the forefront of major legal events; she has orchestrated several firm initiatives with multidisciplinary teams designated to best advise clients through the evolving legal landscape. Amy was on the front lines of the legal issues surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic, leading the firm’s COVID-19 Task Force. After the Dobbs decision was released, Amy led the efforts on the Dobbs Decision Task Force and oversaw the guidance the firm provided to employers on how to navigate the changes related to this decision. After the 2023 ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court was announced on affirmative action, which impacts our clients nationwide as they approach diversity, equity and inclusion efforts, Amy led a dedicated team of BakerHostetler partners from multiple practices across the firm in the creation of the Affirmative Action Decision Task Force.

Professional Memberships

New York University School of Law, Center for Labor and Employment Law: Board of Advisors (2020 to 2022)