Lazar, Janet G.

Amy Varel joined the firm in 2000 and is a partner in the business/corporate group. Amy focuses her practice on general business, health law and not-for-profit law matters.

Amy's general business practice includes general corporate counseling, as well as counseling on employment law matters, contract preparation, review and negotiation, business purchases, sales and mergers and planning for and the formation of corporations, limited liability companies and partnerships. Her practice includes a special emphasis on the representation of physicians and physician groups.

Amy also represents churches and other not for profit organizations. She has formed and continues to represent churches and other not for profit organizations and has successfully obtained federal and state tax exempt status on their behalf.

Amy grew up in Oswego, New York. She graduated cum laude from the State University of New York at Buffalo in 1996 with a BA in Political Science and a minor in History. She received her Juris Doctor degree from the University of Pittsburgh School of Law in 1999.

As an active member of the Monroe County Bar Association, Amy currently serves on the Membership Committee, the Academy of Law and the Business Law Section. She is also a past chair of the Young Lawyers Section. In 2008 Amy was invited by the Monroe County Bar Association to be a member of its first class of "Rochester's Emerging Bar Leaders."

Amy is also an active member of the Rochester Women's Network, where she serves on the Programming Committee and is a co-chair of the Orientation and Recruitment Committee.

Amy resides in Henrietta with her husband, Ed, and their two daughters, Abby and Emma.