Amy Habib Rittling, a Partner with Lippes Mathias, serves as Team Leader for the firm’s Employment Practice Team. She concentrates her practice in employment and general business law and litigation.  Her employment law experience includes counseling and advising employers on all aspects of employment relationships and employment practices and policies. She also regularly assists employers with workplace investigations and self-audits. Ms. Habib Rittling also represents employers before administrative agencies including the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the New York State Division of Human Rights, the U.S. Department of Labor, the New York State Department of Labor and other various state and local employment agencies. She frequently defends clients in legal claims involving: discrimination, harassment, wrongful termination, state and federal wage and hour laws, and the Family and Medical Leave Act, and the Americans with Disabilities Act.

Ms. Habib Rittling also frequently serves as a mediator and in that capacity has mediated and facilitated the resolution of employment law claims and disputes.

Ms. Habib Rittling also counsels independent schools in all areas of school law and compliance issues.  

Prior to returning to Buffalo, Ms. Habib Rittling served as Special Assistant to Commissioner Leslie E. Silverman of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.

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ADMITTED TO PRACTICE
  • New York
  • District of Columbia
  • U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York
  • U.S. District Court, Western District of New York

Education
  • University at Buffalo School of Law, J.D.
  • Boston College, B.A.
  • Buffalo Seminary
  • Elmwood Franklin School

Honors & Awards 
  •  Chambers USA: Americas Leading Lawyers for Business
    • Labor & Employment (Upstate New York)
    • Litigation: General Commercial (Upstate New York)
  • The Best Lawyers in America©, 2020-2025
  • Upstate New York Super Lawyers®, 2015-2024 
  • Buffalo Business First, “Power 200 Women,” 2018-2022, 2024
  • Buffalo Business First/Buffalo Law Journal, Legal Elite of WNY, 2014-2017
  • Buffalo Business First, "Women of Influence" Award, August 2012
  • Buffalo Niagara Partnership, ATHENA Award Recipient, January 2016
  • The Daily Record Excellence in Law, Top Women in the Law, 2014

Community Involvement
  • The Buffalo Club, President 
  • The Children’s Hospital of Buffalo Foundation, Board of Directors
  • John R. Oishei Children's Hospital Campaign, Co-Chair
  • Elmwood Franklin School, Board of Trustees, Chair
  • Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra, Board of Trustees
  • Law Enforcement Foundation of WNY, Board of Directors
  • The National Federation for Just Communities of Western New York (formerly NCCJ), Former Co-Chair Board of Directors
  • Buffalo Seminary, Former Chair Board of Trustees
  • Leadership Buffalo Graduate

Speaking Engagements 
  • Labor & Employment Seminar, Co-Host/Speaker, Jacksonville, March 7, 2024
  • "ESG; Emerging Compliance Requirements and Avoiding Investigations & Enforcement Action," Panelist, Webinar, May 24, 2022
  • "Women of Influence," Panelist, Buffalo State University's Corner Office Series, November 4, 2021
  • "The COVID Vaccine: What It Means For My Employees," Presenter, The Business Council of New York State HR Series, January 21, 2021
  • "Understanding the New Sick Leave Law," Buffalo, NYSVMS, NY, December 14, 2020
  • "U.S. Employment Law: Critical HR Considerations for Canadian Businesses Before, During and After the Pandemic," Speaker, November 5, 2020
  • “Implementing New York State’s Paid Sick Leave Law,” Speaker, Business Council of New York State’s Labor/HR Webinar Series, November 19, 2020
  • “New Sexual Harassment Laws: What Employers Need to Know," Presenter, Buffalo Niagara Partnership, May 14, 2019
  • “Best Practices in Forming a Board for Your Family Business," Co-presenter, University at Buffalo's Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership, April 2016
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