Preti Flaherty Welcomes Attorneys Michelle Amidzich Fritz and Kat Mail to the Firm

Preti Flaherty is pleased to announce the arrival of attorneys Michelle Amidzich Fritz and Kat Mail.

Michelle Amidizich Fritz joins the firm’s Environmental Practice Group in the Boston office. She is a graduate of Vermont Law and Graduate School, where she earned a JD and Master of Food & Agriculture Law & Policy, and the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. While at Vermont Law, Michelle was Editor-in-Chief of the Vermont Journal of Environmental Law, held a legal internship at the U.S. Department of the Interior’s Office of the Solicitor in Boston, and was a research assistant at the Harvard Animal Law & Policy Program.  She joins Preti Flaherty following a year as a trial court law clerk at the Rhode Island Supreme Court.

Kat Mail joins the firm’s Litigation Practice Group in the Concord, New Hampshire, office. She is a graduate of the University of Michigan Law School and the College of William & Mary. While at Michigan Law, Kat was an executive editor of the Michigan Law Review, a moot court award recipient, and teaching assistant for Legal Practice. She is currently an adjunct professor of Mock Trial at the University of New Hampshire. Kat was a Preti Flaherty summer associate in 2020 and returns to the firm following two years as a law clerk to the Hon. Justice James P. Bassett of the New Hampshire Supreme Court.

Managing Partner David B. Van Slyke notes: “Preti Flaherty continues to attract the best young talent across every area of law. Michelle and Kat are already proven standouts, and we anticipate further great things from both now that they’ve joined our firm.”