Amanda’s practice encompasses a wide range of matters, including construction, securities and shareholder litigation, government investigations, and administrative appeals. She represents a broad range of clients across diverse industries, advising individuals and businesses on both litigation and business matters. She has experience drafting general contracts, subcontracts, and consultant agreements, while also advising clients through all stages of the litigation process. Amanda is well versed in complex e-discovery and privilege issues, frequently handling large data matters for litigation, internal investigations, and government inquiries. She is also an active member of Mintz’s Construction Law Practice Group, helping represent property owners, developers, contractors, and subcontractors in construction disputes.
Amanda maintains an active and robust pro bono practice for which she received the Lawyers for Civil Rights Pro Bono Award. Her previous immigration experience before joining Mintz has allowed her to assist on multiple immigration pro bono cases, spanning from asylum to naturalization issues. She worked with a team of Mintz attorneys researching and drafting an amicus brief to the U.S. Supreme Court challenging the inclusion of a citizenship question on the 2020 census form and represented the NAACP – Boston Branch as an intervenor in a high-profile case regarding the admissions criteria for Boston’s highly selective public schools.
While in law school, Amanda served as an article editor for the Suffolk University Law Review and volunteered with the Suffolk Law Innocence Clinic. She also spent a summer as a judicial intern at the Massachusetts Superior Court and worked during her third year of law school as an immigration law teaching assistant.
Prior to law school, Amanda worked at several local law offices as a paralegal where she gained experience drafting trust and estate documents and handling probate administration.
Experience
- Represents owners and contractors, both large and small, in mediation and arbitration concerning construction and design defects.
- Member of team that represents DivcoWest in all matters pertaining to consultant, construction and design documents for its Cambridge Crossing project in Cambridge, Massachusetts, 120 Middlesex project in Somerville, Massachusetts, and Peninsula Crossing project in Burlingame, California.
- Coordinated discovery efforts and provided strategic guidance, research, and drafting in the defense of a public pharmaceutical company and its officers in an SEC investigation and securities class action complaint resulting in an excellent settlement for the company.
- Represented a national automotive parts retailer in a securities class action in the District of Delaware and successfully obtained dismissal of a related derivative action against its board of directors and certain senior executives.
- Part of the team representing an energy company in administrative appeals of wetlands and Chapter 91 waterways permitting for natural gas infrastructure.
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Health Care Qui Tam Update
November 5, 2018 | Article | By Hope Foster, Kevin McGinty, Benjamin Zegarelli
Health Care Qui Tam Update - August 2017
August 16, 2017 | Article | By Hope Foster, Kevin McGinty, Amanda L. Clairmont
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News & Press
BOSTON – Mintz has earned top rankings in the 2023 edition of Legal 500 United States guide. The firm is recognized in 14 practice categories, and 59 individual attorneys are also recognized in the guide, some in more than one category.
Mintz and ML Strategies Receive Environmental Business Council Award For Outstanding Collaboration
June 08, 2023
BOSTON - Mintz and ML Strategies were recognized with the prestigious Nicholas Humber Award for Outstanding Collaboration by the Environmental Business Council of New England (EBC) at the 30th Annual EBEE Awards in Boston.
Recognition & Awards
Pro Bono Award, Lawyers for Civil Rights Boston (2019)
Best Brief, Legal Practice Skills Section Competition (2016)
Trustee Academic Scholarship (2015-2018)