Amanda Kay Seals represents plaintiffs and defendants in complex trial and appellate litigation. Though she has substantial business litigation experience, Amanda Kay currently devotes much of her practice to consumer and business tort cases at both the trial and appellate level, including fraud, breach of fiduciary duty, and business and personal injury. She also has extensive experience in class action cases. 

In 2022, Amanda Kay was recognized by the Fulton County Daily Report as a Georgia Lawyer “On The Rise,” an annual listing of the most promising legal minds under 40. From 2019 to 2023, she has been named a Rising Star, an annual honor given to no more than 2.5 percent of lawyers in Georgia under 40 who have attained a high degree of peer recognition and professional achievement.

Amanda Kay previously served as a law clerk to the Honorable Joel F. Dubina, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, and Chief Judge W. Keith Watkins, U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Alabama.

She received her Juris Doctor from the University of Georgia School of Law and was recognized with the institution’s inaugural Young Alumni of Excellence Award in 2017. Amanda Kay holds a Bachelor of Arts and Sciences from South Carolina Honors College at the University of South Carolina.

Outside of the office, Amanda Kay serves as adjunct faculty at the University of Georgia School of Law, where she teaches a course on sexual orientation and gender identity law. Amanda Kay is passionate about her volunteer involvement with Kate’s Club, a nonprofit organization that empowers children and young adults facing life after the death of a parent or sibling. She also serves on the National Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging Committee of Chi Omega, the largest women’s fraternal organization in the world.

Representative Work

Successfully represented sex trafficking survivors in a first-of-its-kind trial against hotels that facilitated their trafficking, resulting in multiple confidential settlements.

Obtained $95 million jury verdict on behalf of Cayman-appointed liquidators in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida. The jury found that Deutsche Bank facilitated a Ponzi scheme resulting in the loss of the represented companies' assets. Amanda Kay was the chief architect of directed verdict briefing that ensured the case went to the jury, helped design trial strategy, and one of three attorneys who cross-examined the Bank’s witnesses. 

Part of a team that guided Equifax investors to a $149 million cash settlement related to the 2017 data breach.

Part of a team that guided investors to a $50 million cash settlement after allegations that the investors purchased stock at prices artificially inflated by defendant’s misrepresentations about the source of its revenue.

Part of the trial team that won $54 million verdicts over two related trials. Amanda Kay argued nearly every evidentiary objection in both trials and handled arguments regarding jury strikes, jury charges, and a mistrial motion.

Part of the appellate team that preserved a $40 million verdict in a Georgia Supreme Court products liability case.

Successfully defended a $500 million RICO case filed against 20 corporate defendants, alleging conspiracy spanning four continents and four decades. Not only did Amanda Kay and a team of Bondurant lawyers persuade the trial court to dismiss the case, they also successfully defended that dismissal on appeal in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit.

Successfully defended a private corporation and its outside counsel in a series of related malicious prosecution suits filed in both state and federal court alleging RICO claims, conspiracy, and violations of plaintiffs’ constitutional rights. Amanda Kay assumed responsibility for arguments regarding the retroactive application of amendments to Georgia’s RICO statute. Ultimately, the Georgia Court of Appeals adopted the Bondurant team’s reasoning, and all cases were resolved at the motion to dismiss stage without any discovery having been taken.

Regularly represents a Fortune 50 retailer in business tort, breach of contract, and intellectual property disputes involving the company’s relationships with vendors and suppliers.

Successfully argued on behalf of the former North American General Manager of a leading European medical products distributor to send an employment-related dispute to arbitration. The Company brought suit against Amanda Kay’s client and opposed efforts to arbitrate the Company’s claims and Manager’s counterclaims, but Amanda Kay persuaded the court that arbitration clause in employment agreement covered these disputes. Amanda Kay then handled settlement negotiations from start to finish, reaching a favorable resolution for her client.

Represented 14 county governments in a multimillion-dollar RICO claim against a data company that harvested images of county land records without paying per-page fee. Amanda Kay managed the electronic discovery process on behalf of the counties, drafted an ultimately successful brief opposing severance of the counties’ claims, and authored the mediation strategy that led to the suit’s favorable resolution.

REPRESENTATIVE PRO BONO WORK

Represents a certified class of juvenile pretrial detainees entitled to special education services who have been denied those services during detention. In addition to certifying the class, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia granted summary judgment in favor of the class.

Represented Georgia Equality as amicus curiae before the U.S. Supreme Court in Bostock and the related landmark Title VII sexual orientation and gender discrimination cases.

Won reversal of motion to dismiss in Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals on behalf of Georgia inmate in an Eighth Amendment failure to protect claim after the inmate was beaten and stabbed by fellow prisoners following repeated threats and prison’s refusal to transfer the attacked inmate to a different dormitory.

Negotiated favorable settlement for a Fulton County Jail detainee in an excessive force suit against jailers.

Regularly represents transgender Georgians in efforts to secure conforming identity documents and connects dozens of others with volunteer lawyers to do the same.

Professional Activities

Barrister, Bleckley Inn of Court, 2019 - 2022

Georgia High School Mock Trial Competition Chair, 2018 - 2019

Eleventh Circuit Judicial Conference Planning Committee, 2018

Barrister, Lumpkin Inn of Court, 2017 - 2019

Leadership Academy, State Bar of Georgia, 2018

LEAD Atlanta Class of 2017

Honors and Awards

Georgia Rising Star, 2019 - 2024

Fulton County Daily Report “On the Rise,” 2022

University of Georgia School of Law, Young Alumni of Excellence, 2017