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Amanda Metts is a partner in McDermott Will & Emery LLP's Trial Department, based in the Firm's Chicago office. Amanda has experience in a wide range of general business disputes, white collar criminal matters, defense of securities class actions, SEC investigations and health care-related cases.
Amanda has appeared in and represented clients in both federal and state courts in a wide range of matters, including defense of a hedge fund in connection with class action multi-district securities litigation and related government investigation; defense of a major oil company in multi-billion dollar multi-district litigation; representation of several major health care organizations and employees in connection with various government health care fraud investigations; and prosecution and defense of several former employee disputes, including enforcement of covenants not to compete, breach of fiduciary duty, and misappropriation of trade secrets.
Amanda has been active in several pro bono matters, including extensive work with the New England Innocence Project, which seeks to exonerate wrongly-convicted individuals based on DNA testing. She has also worked on a team serving as special counsel to the Massachusetts commission that investigates judicial misconduct.
Before joining the Firm in 2003, Amanda was a litigation associate in a major Boston law firm, where her practice involved general commercial, securities, intellectual property, white collar and appellate motion work. Amanda also served as a Special Assistant District Attorney for the Middlesex County District Attorney's Office in Massachusetts.
Just after completing law school, Amanda served as judicial clerk to Chief Justice Boyce F. Martin, Jr. with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit.
Amanda is licensed to practice in Illinois and Massachusetts and is admitted to practice in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, the District of Massachusetts, and the U.S. Courts of Appeals for the First, Sixth and Seventh Circuits. She is a member of the Illinois and Chicago Bar Associations, the Massachusetts and Boston Bar Associations, and the Federal Bar Association.
Education:
Boston University School of Law, J.D. (magna cum laude), 1998
Ohio University, B.S. (summa cum laude), 1995 | 