Amanda Elvira Manahan

I have worked with a number of attorneys over the course of my business career. Many of them have been competent and effective. Ms. Manahan is both of those to be sure but she offers something more. Amanda is fiercely protective of her clients. Some attorneys take the position that as long as the...y win the trial and collect damages on behalf of their clients they have done their job. While that my be true in the strictest sense, lawsuits can take years to litigate. Over the course of that process the client can be brutalized by opposing counsel (this tactic is especially popular with parties without actual defenses to the claims brought against them). These tactics often take the form of hours of harassing deposition questions outside the scope of reasonable inquiry, questions both in deposition and in written discover which are either redundant or designed to embarrass the responding party etc. While the results of these abusive tactics are often excluded at trial the stress and toll that they can take on us clients can be substantial. This is one of the many areas where Ms. Manahan sets herself apart from many other attorneys. For her it is not just an issue of billable hours. She sees it as her duty to shield her clients from this abuse of process. While litigation can be grueling under the best of circumstances, having an attorney who is in touch with the client experience and does not view the end justifying the means is a breath of fresh air. Ms. Manahan was the primary attorney on a case where her team secured what amounts to a $10 million judgement in our favor. I have and will continue to refer friends and associates to her for any business litigation matter they may be facing.