Lawyer Bio : Amanda G. Ray

Amanda is an associate in the Business Litigation practice group of Womble Carlyle's Raleigh office. Amanda's diverse practice includes representing clients in commercial contract disputes, unfair and deceptive trade practice claims, consumer finance and residential lending claims, and disputes arising out of trust and estate administration. She has participated in mediations, arbitrations, administrative hearings, and several significant appellate cases. Amanda is a primary editor/writer for Womble Carlyle's highly-regarded North Carolina Appellate Blog. Amanda represents clients in a variety of sectors including the software and banking industries.

Before joining Womble Carlyle, Amanda was a judicial clerk at the North Carolina Court of Appeals, and an Associate Attorney General in the North Carolina Department of Justice’s Consumer Protection Division, where she helped enforce North Carolina’s unfair and deceptive trade practices and discount buying club acts, and gained an understanding of issues related to these laws from the consumer’s perspective. Prior to completing law school, Amanda gained valuable business experience as a technical writer, software developer and business analyst at IBM, Engineous Software, Peopleclick and Electronic Data Systems.