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Amy Royal
Founder/CEO, the Royal Law Firm
Amy Royal is a big believer in that old adage — the one about how if you want something done, give that task to a busy person.
“I’ve seen that happen so much over the course of my career,” she told BusinessWest. “Those busy people — they just make it happen. They’ll return things very quickly; they get things done, and done right.”
For quite some time now, Royal, founder and CEO of the Springfield-based Royal Law Firm, has been the very definition of that proverbial busy person — and that’s probably why people keep asking her to do things, with ‘people’ mean- ing everything from legal clients to area nonprof- its to those running the Springfield Ballers (more on them later).
Indeed, Royal is busy with all kinds of things these days, and the sum of this work inside and outside the office (and on her new office) cer- tainly helps to explain why she is a finalist for the Alumni Achievement Award in 2022.
Let’s start with the office. Back in 2009, when Royal was honored as a member of the third 40 Under Forty class, she was busy put- ting the law firm she established on a path to consistent, diverse growth. To say that she has succeeded with that assignment would be an understatement.
Indeed, the firm has grown in size — it now
boasts a team of 11 — while also greatly expand- ing its book of business, its geographic footprint, and its service areas.
When the firm was launched, it was focused exclusively on representing employers in labor and employment law matters. It still does a lot of that, but it has pushed into other areas of the law, as Royal explained.
“It was a long time coming before I decided to expand beyond that; we still only represent organizations, but now we do it in other practice areas beyond where we started,” she explained. “I’m representing Merck Corp. in federal court here in a products-liability claim; my litigation has expanded beyond labor and employment law to commercial litigation generally.”
Merck is just one of many national and inter- national clients in the firm’s portfolio. Others include Google, Dick’s Sporting Goods, Macy’s, Panasonic Corp. of North America, and KeyBank.
As for geographic expansion, the firm now has satellite offices in Hartford, Providence, and Ben- nington, Vt. (the latest facility to open), and Royal has ambitious plans to soon be in all six New England states.
And her entrepreneurial exploits extend beyond her law firm. Indeed, she has been
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