Attorneys

Amanda L. Thrash practices in all aspects of commercial and civil litigation at both the trial and appellate level with a focus in First Amendment and Media Law and Oil and Gas. Ms. Thrash works with a wide variety of clients ranging from utilities and companies to individuals.

Ms. Thrash's First Amendment and Media Law practice encompasses pre-publication review, copyright registration and infringement and advertising regulation. Her representative First Amendment and Media Law Experience includes:

• Defending several media entities in invasion of privacy and libel actions;
• Working with local municipal and county attorneys to resolve open records requests on behalf of a commercial client;
• Pursuing a libel action on behalf of a commercial client.

Ms Thrash's Oil and Gas practice encompasses litigation in state and federal courts as well as before the Oklahoma Corporation Commission. Her representative Oil and Gas experience includes:

• Investigating and assessing the validity of various types of pending oil and gas-related liens on behalf of a client attempting to take over an oil and gas company during its bankruptcy;
• Pursuing breach of contract and oil and gas lien foreclosure actions;
• Helping defend against an oil and gas royalties class action.

Her representative Commercial Litigation experience includes:

• Drafting Applications for Writs of Prohibition and a Petition for Certiorari to the Oklahoma Supreme Court;
• Assisting in a wrongful death arbitration;
• Lead attorney experience in a successful mediation and a wide variety of hearings including a guardianship, attorney fee applications, emergency custody applications, and protective orders;
• Obtaining Summary Judgment decisions in two separate cases by (1) arguing the priority of an attorney lien over a second home mortgage despite a claim for equitable subrogation and (2) arguing for personal liability of a corporate president entering into a contract while the corporate was inactive;
• Successfully defending against a Motion to Dismiss for lack of personal jurisdiction on behalf of one of the world's largest oil and gas corporations in the Northern District of Oklahoma by arguing the client could bring suit in Oklahoma against an out of state Defendant even though Oklahoma is not its place of incorporation or principal place of business;
• Helping obtain a Motion to Stay on behalf of a foreign country in the Western District of Oklahoma due to pending proceedings in the foreign country involving the same contract by discussing principles of International Abstention.

Ms. Thrash has also participated in intensive, hands-on Deposition and Pre-Trial Fundamental Training Conferences conducted by the National Institute of Trial Advocacy.

Ms. Thrash received her Doctor of Jurisprudence from Washington & Lee University School of Law. She graduated summa cum laude and Phi Kappa Phi from Oklahoma State University with a Bachelor of Arts degree in News-Editorial Journalism and minors in Political Science, Classical Studies and Latin.

While at Washington & Lee, Ms. Thrash served as the Solicited Articles Editor for the Journal of Civil Rights and Social Justice. She was a semi-finalist in the school's Davis Moot Court Competition and competed on the school's ABA National Appellate Advocacy Competition team. She also spent a semester studying at Trinity College in Dublin, Ireland, spent a summer as a Shepherd Poverty Alliance Intern, and worked as a trained volunteer for Project Horizon Domestic Violence Shelter. She served on the firm's Web Site Committee and currently serves on the firm's Technology and Lateral Recruiting Committees.