Amanda P. Ellison

Amanda Ellison focuses her practice on representing corporate policyholders in complex insurance recovery matters. She has extensive experience handling high-stakes disputes relating to numerous types of coverage, including commercial general liability, errors and omissions, property, and directors and officers liability insurance. Amanda advises clients at all stages — from initial coverage analysis to pre-claim counseling and advocacy and through litigation. Amanda also regularly collaborates with multidisciplinary teams to coordinate and manage parallel insurance proceedings during underlying liability matters.

Amanda has played a key role in helping policyholders recover hundreds of millions of dollars in insurance proceeds in connection with complex claims involving large, multi-layer and multi-year insurance programs, including mass tort claims, catastrophic property loss and business interruption, and product liability claims. As a seasoned litigator, Amanda has successfully prosecuted coverage actions in state and federal courts for breach of the duty to defend and indemnify. Recognized for her work for policyholders, Amanda was selected by Law360 as a "Rising Star" in 2019 in the insurance law category (one of five attorneys nationwide).

Amanda has also represented corporate clients in a wide variety of civil litigation, including consumer class actions, contract disputes, and business torts. She has extensive experience in all aspects of litigation, including case management, discovery, summary judgment, pretrial motions, trial, and appeals.

Before joining Jones Day, Amanda served as a judicial clerk at the California Court of Appeal, where she gained experience in a wide variety of legal matters and acquired extensive knowledge in California law and procedure.