Amanda C. Croushore

Amanda Croushore has extensive experience in employment law, focusing on litigation, dispute resolution, advice and counsel, and internal investigations.

Amanda represents employers in litigation involving claims of discrimination, retaliation, harassment, wrongful termination and breach of contract. She appears regularly in state and federal court and before administrative agencies, such as the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, Texas Workforce Commission, and the Department of Labor.

Amanda also conducts sensitive workplace investigations and advises clients on how to proceed in internal allegations of harassment, discrimination and retaliation brought by and/or against current employees.

In addition, Amanda provides advice and counsel to clients on a wide range of employment-related topics, including family and medical leave, hiring, disciplining and terminating employees, wage and hour compliance, reasonable workplace accommodations, and employment contracts and severance agreements. She provides training to HR departments on these and related topics as well.

Prior to joining Ogletree Deakins, Amanda worked in private practice in New York City and for the Labor & Employment Division of the New York City Law Department. Amanda also previously served as a judicial law clerk to U.S. District Court judge Hon. Vincent L. Briccetti of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York. She graduated cum laude from the University of Wisconsin Law School in her hometown of Madison, WI, and received her B.A. degree, also cum laude, from Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, NY. She is admitted to practice in Texas, New York and Wisconsin.