Amy Ernst

  • Senior Staff Attorney
  • Philadelphia
she / her / hers
  • aernst@hausfeld.com
  • +1 215 309 7482
  • https://www.linkedin.com/in/amy-ernst-a2692846/
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OVERVIEW

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.

EDUCATION

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

BAR ADMISSIONS

Pennsylvania

U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Pennsylvania

U.S. District Court, Middle District of Pennsylvania

AFFILIATIONS

American Bar Association, Member (2019-Present)

YWCA: Rape Crisis Center, Advisory Board Member (2023-Present)

EXPERIENCE

Antitrust/Competition

  • In re Google Play Developer Antitrust Litigation – In which the firm represents a class of app developers that sold apps or in-app products via the Google Play store. The developers allege that Google has abused its market power to exclude competing app stores from Android phones, stifling innovation and consumer choice, and resulting in a supracompetitive default 30% transaction fee.