Thrash, Amanda L.

Amanda L. Thrash practices in all aspects of commercial and civil litigation at both the trial and appellate level with a focus in Media Law, Energy & Natural Resources, and Commercial/Business Litigation.  Amanda works with a wide variety of clients ranging from utilities and companies to individuals.

Amanda's Media Law practice encompasses pre-publication review, copyright registration and infringement and advertising regulation. Her representative 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.

Amanda's Energy & Natural Resources practice encompasses litigation in state and federal courts as well as before the Oklahoma Corporation Commission. Her representative 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;
• Defending against an oil and gas royalties class action;
• Obtaining a summary judgment decision arguing that a Gas Storage Agreement providing for gas storage in certain lands allowed gas storage in all areas below the surface not just storage in certain formations.

Her representative Commercial Litigation experience includes:

• Drafting Applications for Writs of Prohibition and various appeals before the Oklahoma Supreme Court;
• Lead attorney experience in successful mediations and a wide variety of hearings;  
• Obtaining Summary Judgment decisions, including (1) arguing the priority of an attorney lien over a second home mortgage despite a claim for equitable subrogation; (2) arguing for personal liability of a corporate president entering into a contract while the corporation was inactive; (3) arguing against liability of a purchaser who bought an item not knowing it was secured by another party; and (4) arguing a judgment from the Republic of Korea should receive recognition and preclusive effect in litigation pending in the Western District of Oklahoma between the same parties regarding the same contract.  
• 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.

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

Amanda 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, Amanda 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 has served on the firm's Web Site Committee, Technology Committee and Lateral Recruiting Committee.