Amanda is a Scholar in Residence and Senior Consultant. She is a skilled instructor and facilitator and is especially focused on LLSI’s Legal Workout^®, an award-winning customized program that enables diverse cross-functional, law firm-legal department teams to achieve rapid results. save money, reduce risk and cement mutually beneficial corporate-law firm relationships. 

Amanda brings 30 years of experience in the legal industry.  As a leading executive search consultant for 20 years, Amanda provided market trend and operational intelligence to law firm and corporate clients in addition to recruiting chief and director-level executives in operations, finance, marketing, business development, strategy, pricing, human resources, recruiting and professional development, technology, knowledge management and practice management.

As Managing Partner and Global Practice Leader of Major, Lindsey & Africa’s Law Firm Management Practice, Amanda and her team specialized in placing business executives across the law firm management suite in firms ranging from AmLaw 5 to small boutiques. Amanda also served as Managing Partner of MLA’s Houston, Texas, office. In addition to advising clients on industry process improvement and project management trends, Amanda utilized those same principles to organize and streamline the executive recruiting process at MLA and in her prior role as a Director during her 10 year tenure with executive search firm The Alexander Group.

In her most recent role as Chief Operating Officer of the boutique defense firm National Litigation Law Group, she was responsible for directing all business operations supporting the practice of law and working collaboratively with the Firm’s CEO and Principals to ensure that strategic goals were achieved. At NLLG, Amanda initiated extensive litigation process improvement measures and PI-PM training.  She also worked collaboratively with the firm’s largest client to identify mutually beneficial process and policy improvements, enhancing collaboration and efficiency across organizations.

Amanda’s deep experience in legal industry operational, administrative and consulting roles has given her a comprehensive understanding of the challenges the legal industry has faced over the last two decades and the transformations required of law firms and corporate legal departments to meet changing market demands. Her distinctive background and knowledge enable her to provide clients with a unique perspective as a true business partner and a new lens through which to view and tackle even the most challenging operational obstacles.

Areas of Study

Graduate certificate in Business Analytics: From Data to Insights at The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania

Graduate certificate: Women in Leadership, Cornell University

Graduate certificate: Virtual Leadership: Leading Dispersed Teams, The University of Texas, McCombs School of Business

Master’s degree, Law Firm Management from The George Washington University

Certified Yellow Belt, Legal Lean Sigma Process Improvement and Project Management

B.B.A. in Management, summa cum laude, with minors in Marketing and Latin American Studies, University of Houston

Select Honors

Member, Phi Kappa Phi and Golden Key Honour Society

Fellow in the College of Law Practice Management (2017)

Named to Lawdragon’s “100 Leading Legal Consultants and Strategists” (2016 – 2019)