Butler Snow issued the following announcement on May 16.
Butler Snow is pleased to announce Amanda G. Taylor will receive the 2019 Litigation/Appellate Attorney Award from the Travis County Women Lawyers’ Association (TCWLA) on May 17 at the association’s annual grants and awards luncheon.
Since 1991, TCWLA has celebrated the contributions of unsung heroines in the legal profession through its attorney awards program. Award recipients are nominated by their peers for their work merit, volunteer activities and the atmosphere they create in the workplace.
Amanda is a board-certified civil appellate specialist who routinely represents clients in both district and appellate courts across Texas. Her practice areas are widely varied and include disputes regarding contracts, business organizations, employment, shareholders, fiduciaries, trusts, the Texas Citizens’ Participation Act, fraud/misrepresentation, real property, franchise and sales tax, and consumers. She has been recognized by Super Lawyers® as a Texas Super Lawyer for civil appellate practice every year since 2014, and was named as a Top 50 Central/West Texas Lawyer in 2018.
Amanda is the current Chair of the Civil Appellate Section of the Austin Bar Association, and has served on the Bar’s Board of Directors for the last four years. She is a regular CLE speaker for both the State Bar of Texas and the UT School of Law, and she is an active member of TCWLA and the Baylor Law School Alumni Association. Amanda received her bachelor’s degree, cum laude, from Vanderbilt University and her Juris Doctor, cum laude, from Baylor University School of Law