Attorney honored for volunteer work

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Jennifer A. Shah, an attorney with the Buffalo office of Phillips Lytle LLP, will receive the Volunteer Lawyers Project’s 2014 Litigation Award.

Shah will be honored at the seventh annual “Champions for Justice Bash,” on Friday at the Hotel Lafayette, 391 Washington St., Buffalo.

The annual event celebrates the work done by the Bar Association of Erie County’s Volunteer Lawyers Project Inc. and Legal Services for the Elderly, Disabled or Disadvantaged of Western New York Inc.

Shah focuses her practice on complex federal and state litigation, including products liability and commercial matters. She served as a trial attorney in the Torts Branch of the U.S. Department of Justice’s Civil Division, where she defended the United States government in a wide range of tort cases.

Shah was among a group of 12 Phillips Lytle LLP attorneys honored by the New York State Bar Association for their pro bono work under the Empire State Counsel Program for 2013.

She graduated from Vanderbilt University School of Law, where she served as managing editor of the Vanderbilt Law Review. She earned her bachelor’s degree, cum laude, from Williams College.

Shah also serves as secretary of the Explore & More Children’s Museum and previously served as co-chair of the International Rett Syndrome Foundation’s Hustle for a Cure for several years.