Biography
Amanda Vaughn is Deputy General Counsel, responsible for all of Bank of America’s non-employment related litigation globally. Amanda manages a department of over 100 attorneys and other professionals. Prior to October 2017, Amanda led a team of lawyers handling securities and commercial litigation, antitrust litigation, bankruptcy and mortgage related litigation. In that role, Amanda was directly involved in the litigation related to the financial crisis, including class actions and other lawsuits filed by institutional investors, trusts and governmental entities.
Amanda joined Bank of America in 2006 from Davis Polk & Wardwell where she worked on internal investigations, regulatory enforcement actions, and commercial and securities litigation. Prior to joining Davis Polk, Amanda served as a law clerk to a federal district court judge in Philadelphia. She is a member of the board of NYC Outward Bound Schools. She is a graduate of the University of Michigan and Vanderbilt Law School, where she was a member of the Vanderbilt Law Review and the Order of the Coif.