Amy L. Houck joined Cooper Levenson as an associate in 2007 in the firm's Atlantic City office. Amy works with the firm's Education Law Practice Group, serving school boards and school officials on every aspect of Education Law. Amy is the lead attorney for numerous education law clients, including the Galloway Community Charter School, the Oceanside Charter School, The Institute for Excellence Charter School, the Cape May County Technical School, the Wildwood Crest Board of Education, and the Port Republic Board of Education. Amy is also a faculty member for the Southern Regional Institute and Educational Technology Training Center at the Richard Stockton College of New Jersey for the school law leadership program and an adjunct professor for the Master of Arts in Educational Leadership Graduate Program of the Richard Stockton College of New Jersey.
Amy's experience encompasses such areas as education law and education-related litigation, including special education matters. In addition, Amy's experience also includes areas such as zoning, planning and land use, as well as municipal law, real estate, construction and chancery practice. Amy served as a judicial clerk to the Honorable Valerie H. Armstrong, Assignment Judge for Atlantic and Cape May Counties from 2002-2003. While clerking Amy had the opportunity to be trained as a small claims court mediator and mediated cases on a monthly basis.
Amy is a graduate of the Richard Stockton College of New Jersey with a B.A. in Communications in 1999. While in college, Amy volunteered for the Holocaust Victim Assets Litigation. Amy graduated the University of Pittsburgh School of Law with a J.D. and a Certificate in Health Law, in 2002. While in law school Amy interned for Magee Women's Hospital in the legal and HIPPA compliance offices. Amy helped conduct seminars for employees and develop policies and procedures for compliance and investigative regulation for the hospital. Amy has also interned at the Atlantic County Prosecutor's office.
Amy is a member of the Vincent S. Haneman American Inn of Court and the Atlantic and Cape May County Bar Association. She was appointed to serve on the Atlantic County Advisory Commission on Women from May 2011 - February 2014. Amy was appointed to the Board of Directors for Stop the Violence in Atlantic County, a New Jersey non-profit organization, in March 2012. Other community service work includes serving as coach for the Hammonton High School Mock Trial Team and past coordinator for the Vincent J. Apruzzese Mock Trial Competition in Cape May County. Amy was admitted to practice in New Jersey and the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey in 2003.
Phone: (609) 572-7454
Email: ahouck@cooperlevenson.com