Amanda Burns

Amanda Burns joined Caffarelli & Associates Ltd. in January 2023. She focuses her practice on
employment law and represents individual employees and class actions in state and federal court,
before administrative agencies, and through private negotiations.

Before joining the firm, Amanda clerked for the Honorable Eve Reilly in the Chancery Division
of the Circuit Court of Cook County, where she worked extensively on employment-related
matters, including cases involving the Illinois Wage Payment and Collection Act, employment
contracts, non-compete agreements, and emergency labor disputes. She also previously worked
at a plaintiff-side employment law firm, where she served as lead associate in a sex
discrimination case involving over 550 plaintiffs and assisted with court-appointed duties under
the federal Shakman Decree.

Amanda earned her J.D., cum laude, from Loyola University Chicago School of Law in 2019,
where she served as Lead Articles Editor of the Loyola University Chicago Law Journal and
worked as an academic tutor. During law school, Amanda gained additional experience through
clerkships with the Illinois Office of the Attorney General, the United States Attorney’s Office
for the Western District of New York, and the Chicago Board of Education’s Labor and
Employee Discipline Department.

She was admitted to the Illinois Bar in 2019 and is also admitted to practice in the U.S. District
Court for the Northern District of Illinois. Amanda is a member of the National Employment
Lawyers Association–Illinois. She also holds a Master of Arts in Cultural and Educational Policy
Studies from Loyola University Chicago’s Graduate School of Education and earned her
undergraduate degree with honors from Xavier University.

Originally from Buffalo, New York, Amanda now resides in Chicago with her husband,
daughter, and cats.