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Amy Royal
Founder and CEO, the Royal Law Firm
Amy Royal is in pretty much the same place she was last year at this time ... well, at least when it comes to BusinessWest’s Alumni Achieve- ment Award competition.
Indeed, her scores from a different panel of judges have again made her a finalist for the coveted honor, which is why she is now clearing her schedule for the third Thursday in June to enable her to be at the Log Cabin to see if it is her name being announced as the AAA winner for 2023.
But in many other respects, Royal is in a different place — literally and figuratively.
She is now living in Eastern New York, where she is hard at work opening the newest office for the law firm she started in 2008 (and which earned her 40 Under Forty honors the following year), now known as the Royal Law Firm. That new office is in Albany, the state’s capital, giving the firm a presence now in the Empire State and most of New England.
“I’ve been working really hard to expand our foot- print here,” she said from New York, “and obviously continue to build in Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Vermont, New Hampshire...”
As for the Massachusetts office, it is located in the historic Alexander House, just a few hundred feet down Elliot Street in Springfield from the federal courthouse. For Royal, acquisition and subsequent
Amy Royal had only recently launched her law firm in 2009 (the left photo highlights an early client), and now the firm has a physical presence in four states.
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