Amanda M. Mills

Amanda represents companies facing complex business and regulatory challenges, delivering efficient and strategic legal expertise to minimize risk and get back to business as usual.

Amanda’s approach to litigation is tailored to align with each client’s business objectives, ensuring that her advocacy is both practical and effective. As a valuable extension of business and legal teams, Amanda swiftly analyzes problems and mitigates risks, offering industry-appropriate solutions throughout the dispute resolution process. Her experience spans matters involving contracts, business torts, shareholder rights, white-collar criminal issues, and federal, state, and internal investigations. She has appeared before the Minnesota Supreme Court, Minnesota Court of Appeals, and federal and state district courts nationwide.

Amanda also brings deep knowledge of artificial intelligence, particularly in its application to e-discovery. She advises clients and litigation teams on AI use in litigation, including ESI protocols, mobile device discovery, spoliation, and complex privilege strategies. Her discovery plans leverage cutting-edge e-discovery technology and AI to reduce review costs and minimize the risk of inadvertent production.

A dedicated volunteer, Amanda is consistently recognized as a North Star Lawyer by the Minnesota State Bar Association for her extensive pro bono work. She volunteers with the VLN Housing Court Project and serves as Chair of the Board of Directors for Edina Morningside Preschool. She is also active in the Minnesota Chapter of the Federal Bar Association, where she co-chairs the White Collar Crime Committee, and she is a member of the Women in White Collar Defense Association.

Earlier in her career, Amanda clerked for the Honorable Patrick J. Schiltz in the U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota, where she drafted legal opinions, managed criminal and civil dockets, and supported in-court proceedings.

• Represent and advise health systems and medical device companies in breach of contract, post-acquisition, and licensing disputes.
• Conduct internal investigations regarding billing, compliance, and other regulatory matters for clients, including clients in the agricultural and medical device industries.
• Obtained six-figure damages award on client’s counterclaims and defeated all claims asserted against client in a lawsuit alleging breach of contract, service mark and trade name infringement, and deceptive trade practices.
• Obtained summary judgment and dismissal of seven-figure lawsuit against medical device company alleging breach of contract, fraud, misrepresentation, and civil conspiracy.
• Represented lenders in litigation regarding agricultural operations, manufacturing facilities, commercial real estate, and restaurants, including securing a favorable settlement on a client’s claims for civil fraud and violation of the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act.
• Obtained summary judgment and dismissal of declaratory judgment, specific performance, promissory estoppel, ejectment, misrepresentation, and tortious interference with contract claims, resulting in favorable settlement of the sole remaining claim for breach of contract.

Education

• William Mitchell College of Law, J.D., 2015, summa cum laude
• Knox College, B.A., 2011, cum laude

Admissions

• Minnesota, 2015
• U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota, 2015
• U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Minnesota, 2018

Clerkships

• Judicial Law Clerk, Honorable Patrick J. Schiltz, U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota, 2017
• Legal Extern, Honorable John R. Tunheim, U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota, 2014

• Minnesota Super Lawyers Rising Star, Business Litigation, 2023-2025
• Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch, Commercial Litigation, 2023-2026
• North Star Lawyer, Minnesota State Bar Association, 2016-2020, 2024
• CALI Award in Contracts, 2013

Professional Activities

• Minnesota Bar Association, Member
• Federal Bar Association, Minnesota Chapter, Member, Co-Chair of Mentorship Committee, former Co-Chair of Communications, former Co-Chair of White Collar Crime Committee
• Women in White Collar Defense, Member
• William Mitchell Reentry Clinic, Student Attorney, 2014-2015
• William Mitchell Law Review, Editor, Volume 41, 2015
• The World Without Genocide, Book Editor, Domestic Violence Clinic Coordinator, 2012-2015

Community

• Edina Morningside Preschool Board of Directors, Chair
• Volunteer Lawyers Network, Housing Clinic Volunteer, 2015-present
• Volunteer Lawyers Network, Criminal Expungement Services Volunteer, 2015-present
• Mitchell Mentors Program, Mentor, 2016-2017
• St. Jude’s Children’s Research Hospital—ALSAC, Volunteer, 2012-2016