Amy’s recent experience includes serving as appellate counsel, MDL appellate trial counsel and lead motion coordinator for Johnson & Johnson in the pelvic mesh litigation. In this role she has written, directed, and overseen the preparation of over a thousand Daubert motions, and hundreds of dispositive motions, leading a team obtaining summary judgment or dismissals in over 70 cases in the last 18 months.  In 2020, in Willet v. Johnson and Johnson, 465 F.Supp.3d 895 (S.D. Iowa 2020), she obtained exclusion of plaintiff’s primary expert and subsequent summary judgment in a pelvic mesh case. In 2018, in Kaiser v. Johnson & Johnson et al., Case No. 2:17-cv-00114 (N.D. Ind.), she obtained a multimillion-dollar remittitur on appeal in a pelvic mesh case. In 2017, Amy served as appellate trial counsel in Herrera-Nevarez v. Ethicon Inc. et al., Case No. 17 C 3930 (N.D. Ill.), which resulted in a defense verdict on design defect, failure to warn and negligence claims. She also recently represented a national restaurant group at the Tennessee Supreme Court in a case involving claims of vicarious liability, negligent hiring and supervision of an employee convicted of rape and robbery of a local franchise manager.

She has served as national co-lead of the motions and briefing team in testosterone litigation, co-lead for Butler Snow’s motions team and appellate trial counsel in the hernia mesh litigation, and as a member of the motion teams in the Pradaxa^®, Propecia^® and Tylenol^® litigations. Her experience further includes obtaining summary judgment for a manufacturer of metalworking fluids in mass torts case involving over 200 plaintiffs with claims exceeding $100 million. She has successfully represented corporations in EEOC related actions and investigations involving allegations of sexual misconduct. She also previously participated as a member of a Deferred Prosecution Federal Monitor Team for a medical device company. Amy has had the privilege of acting as a court-appointed, pro bono, guardian ad litem in parental termination proceedings.

Amy is a Fellow of the American Bar Association, Litigation Counsel of America, Tennessee Bar Foundation and Memphis Bar Association. She is recognized by Best Lawyers in America^® (Lawyer of the Year, Appellate Practice – Memphis, 2022) and Mid-South Super Lawyers^®. In 2019, the Tennessee Supreme Court appointed Amy to the Tennessee Board of Law Examiners. She was appointed to the Standing Local Rules Committee, Local Patent Rules for the United States District Court for the Western District of Tennessee and served as the Committee Chair from 2012-2018. She was recently appointed to the Content Scope Committee of the National Conference of Bar Examiners.

She is active in a number of organizations, including the American Bar Association, Tennessee Bar Association, Memphis Bar Association (Board of Directors, 2008; House of Delegates, and past Co-Chair of the Quality of Life Committee), Association of Women Attorneys (President, 2003-2004), Federal Bar Association (President of the Mid-South Chapter, 2010), and Leo Bearman Sr. American Inns of Court (Master, 2017-Present). She served as the Event Chair and Panelist for “The Changing Landscape of Patent Law:  Impact of Patent Cases from the 2016-2017 Supreme Court Term on Patent Litigation and Practice,” The Patent Subcommittee of the Standing Local Rules Committee and the Memphis Bar Association CLE Conference, June 29, 2017.

Amy obtained her J.D. from Vanderbilt University Law School and B.A., with honors, from Spring Hill College.  Following law school, she clerked with the Honorable J. Julia Gibbons, Chief Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Tennessee.  She is admitted to practice in Tennessee, admitted in the Sixth, Seventh, and Eleventh Circuit, and the United States Supreme Court.