Biography
Amanda Wingfield Goldman is an Associate in the New Orleans, Louisiana, office of Jackson Lewis P.C. Her practice focuses on representing employers in workplace law matters, including preventive advice and counseling.
Ms. Goldman has experience in insurance defense and subrogation, insurance coverage, environmental law, toxic torts, CERCLA, and ERISA. She has defended employers in Title VII employment discrimination claims, and claims under the FLSA, FMLA, ADEA, OFCCP, USERRA and the ADAAA. Ms. Goldman has handled matters involving collective bargaining actions, including defending grievances and unfair labor practice charges, and unemployment compensation. Ms. Goldman regularly advises and trains her clients on employment policies and is also a Certified Ethics Trainer for the state of Louisiana for public employees.
Prior to joining Jackson Lewis, Ms. Goldman was an attorney at a national labor and employment law firm and also at a national transaction and litigation law firm. She has appellate experience and has won appeals in the Louisiana Third, Fourth, and Fifth Circuit Courts of Appeal. Ms. Goldman also has successfully argued before the Louisiana Fourth Circuit Court of Appeal as a second-year associate. She has tried a USERRA case to a successful jury verdict in the Northern District of Oklahoma.
Ms. Goldman is originally from Champaign, Illinois. While attending law school at Loyola University, she was a member of the National Moot Court Team, Articles Editor for the Loyola Journal of Public Interest Law, a teaching assistant for Moot Court and Legal Research & Writing, and a member of Delta Theta Phi. She was a member of the Illini Equestrian Team and Phi Sigma Sigma sorority at the University of Illinois.