$ 100-100 per hour
also known as Amanda Lewis, Amanda Schmitt
Amanda earned her Juris Doctor degree from Pepperdine University School of Law, where her studies emphasized family law, adoption law, and bioethics, including embryo adoption. Prior to starting Adoptions West, she worked as the parenting and adoption support coordinator for a pregnancy clinic in Southern California. Amanda specializes in interstate adoptions involving ICPC, domestic infant adoption, and embryo adoption/donation.
As an adoptive mom, adoption is close to Amanda’s heart. She knows the joy and the pain that can accompany an adoption journey and loves helping families navigate the beautiful, and sometimes treacherous, waters of adoption.
Amanda draws from both her professional expertise and her personal experience to guide expectant parents considering adoption and adoptive parents through the adoption process.
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$ 100-100 per hour
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Posted by Jenny | February 26, 2015 | Adoption
Caring and Professional
Amanda is fantastic to work with. Her fees are very reasonable. She is a great communicator, very prompt to email back or return phone calls. Amanda does a great job of keeping you informed and updated about the situation and how things are going. Having a personal experience with adoption, I feel li...
Posted by anonymous | January 28, 2015 | Adoption
Excellent personal ethical service
We recently started working with Amanda as our adoption lawyer and to help in the process of finding an opportunity to adopt. She has been very kind and honest since day one. I appreciate the way she thinks about many concerns we may have before we even ask and presents information in a strait forw...
Posted by Emily | July 11, 2014 | Adoption
Honest and Hard Working
We started working with Amanda in March and from the first time we met her she was honest, straight forward and hardworking. She has been completely available to us to discuss any questions or concerns that we may have. She is thorough in collecting information both from us and from other sources to ...
"I heartily endorse Amanda and Adoptions West. Amanda is a hard-working attorney who communicates well with her clients and gracefully guides them through each step of the adoption process. She is passionate about adoption law and advocating for the needs of both biological and adoptive parents. I encourage anyone pursuing an adoption to talk with Amanda and Adoptions West."
"I attended law school with Amanda, and found her to be an exceptional mind. She excelled in all subjects, and was a great help to all her classmates. She has since been an excellent resource on adoption law and practices in California, Montana, and Idaho. Further, I consulted with Amanda, and her firm Adoptions West, on a matter on behalf of a client. She was extremely knowledgeable about the issues involved, and worked diligently and with great competence towards resolution. She shows compassion for the difficult circumstances involved in adoption matters."
"Amanda Schmitt is a skilled and hardworking attorney who is passionate about adoption. An adoptive mother herself, she is not only extremely knowledgable about adoption law, but also wholeheartedly committed to connecting little ones with their forever families."
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2010
Blackstone Legal Fellow, Alliance Defending Freedom
2014 - Present
California Attorney, Adoptions West
2010 - 2010
Blackstone Legal Fellow - Research Associate, Focus on the Family
2010 - 2012
Program Coordinator - Adoption & Parenting Support, Westside Pregnancy Clinic
2009 - 2009
Judicial Extern, The Honorable Ronald S.W. Lew
2012 - Present
State Bar of CaliforniaMember
2010 - Present
Blackstone Legal FellowshipFellow
2011
JD - Juris Doctor
2008
BA - Bachelor of Arts
2014
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