Kathy Lynch’s current practice is exclusively litigation. She has extensive courtroom experience appearing in courtrooms throughout the five boroughs of New York City, Nassau and Westchester County. She handles all phases of litigation from inception through trial and has enjoyed numerous successful plaintiff and defense verdicts and summary judgment decisions. Lynch specializes in commercial litigation (particularly in the construction industry) and civil rights litigation.

Lynch takes a common sense, no-nonsense approach to her commercial litigation practice, that mirrors her down-to-earth personality. She takes a unique interest in her clients, never forgetting that their business interests drive the court case, not vice versa. Prior to starting her own law firm in 1999, Lynch was associated with a criminal defense firm and a plaintiff’s civil litigation firm that specialized in personal injury matters. Lynch also has years of experience working in insurance defense. She worked as in house counsel for American International Group Insurance Company (AIG) specializing in insurance defense coverage in the medical malpractice unit. She then went on to a position as a staff attorney for AIG. In addition, she was lead attorney at a defense firm handling over three hundred insurance defense files for their inception up to and including trial. Lynch is an active member of the National Lawyer’s Guild-NYC Chapter’s Writ Squad (other members include Margaret Ratner Kunstler, Elizabeth M. Fink and Deborah Hrbek), which group of attorneys has successfully obtained the release of protesters wrongfully detained, and the quashing of subpoenas served on the NLG-NYC Chapter by the City of New York in connection with the RNC demonstration cases.

Lynch graduated cum laude from the State University of New York at Albany with a Bachelor of Arts Degree. She received a Juris Doctorate Degree in 1992 from Hofstra University School of Law where she was a torts law fellow. Lynch admitted to the New York State bar, as well as the United States District Courts for the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York.

Kathy Lynch is the co-chair of the litigation committee of the Woman’s Bar Association of the State of New York, a member of the New York State Trial Lawyers and the Jewish Lawyer’s Guild. She is proficient in Spanish and is on the Executive Committee of the New York City Chapter of the National Lawyer’s Guild. She maintains offices in Westchester and Manhattan, and she lives in Mount Kisco, New York with her husband and her triplets.