Amy Ernst
she / her / hers
Amy is a Senior Staff Attorney in Hausfeld’s Philadelphia office. Her current practice at Hausfeld focuses on large-scale antitrust cases and environmental protection cases. Her cases involve major technology companies, the pharmaceutical industry, and industrial chemical companies. Amy worked on a major antitrust case against Google, which was settled within two years of being filed. Amy has been practicing law since 2019. She has been a member of the Hausfeld team since 2021.
Prior to joining Hausfeld, Amy litigated Constitutional and Civil Rights claims on behalf of incarcerated people in the Middle District of Pennsylvania. She provided direct services to individual clients and worked on large scale class actions against the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections and the Federal Bureau of Prisons. Prior to law school Amy did extensive work in sexual assault crisis intervention, including working as a guest writer for The New York Times online and other publications while working with survivors of rape in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo.
American University, Washington College of Law, J.D., 2019
The University of Chicago, M.A., International Relations and Social Sciences, 2013
The Colorado College, B.A., Psychology, 2008
Pennsylvania
U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Pennsylvania
U.S. District Court, Middle District of Pennsylvania
American Bar Association, Member (2019-Present)
YWCA: Rape Crisis Center, Advisory Board Member (2023-Present)