Amy Heinrich is a partner with Goodell DeVries and concentrates her practice on professional malpractice defense. She focuses on the defense of healthcare providers and healthcare institutions.

Amy represents healthcare providers, including physicians, nurses, and therapists in a wide array of professional malpractice claims before the Health Care Alternative Dispute Resolution Office of Maryland, the Circuit Courts of Maryland, the Superior Court of Washington, D.C., and the United States District Courts for Maryland and the District of Columbia. She represents community hospitals and academic medical centers in such claims, as well as for claims involving allegations of negligent credentialing. She has provided representation to hospitals in privileging disputes with individual healthcare providers. Her institutional clients over the years have included Greater Baltimore Medical Center, St. Agnes Hospital, and many others.

As part of her practice, Amy provides representation to mental health professionals in malpractice cases, including psychiatric hospitals, psychiatrists, psychologists, and licensed clinical social workers. Claims involving mental healthcare providers have included diverse allegations of negligence, such as failure to predict suicide, failure to predict harm to others, sexual misconduct, and negligent prescription. Amy has represented Sheppard & Enoch Pratt Hospital and its affiliates in such matters over the years.

Amy has extensive experience in the representation of numerous long-term care facilities. She is often asked to begin representation at the outset of a potential claim and handles such matters through conclusion. She also represents individual healthcare providers in such contexts. She has significant experience in litigating claims concerning allegations arising out of falls, wounds, neglect, and abuse. Amy also represents healthcare providers before their professional licensing boards.