Amanda is an experienced corporate commercial lawyer with a diverse and loyal client base. She leads McDougall Gauley LLP’s tax practice group, and enjoys helping clients with tax-driven corporate reorganizations, trusts, regulatory compliance, and energy and mining matters.
Amanda began her legal career with a clerkship at the Federal Court of Appeal. Following her clerkship, Amanda carried on a corporate commercial practice with McDougall Gauley LLP, with an emphasis on financing transactions, oil and gas law, debtor-creditor law, and corporate reorganizations.
Amanda then moved to the public sector to work for the provincial water regulator. There, she continued to practice corporate law with a focus on government procurement related to specialized engineering and construction projects. Amanda acted as legal counsel on the transfer of twenty dams and related infrastructure from Canada to Saskatchewan in 2017.
Amanda returned to McDougall Gauley LLP in 2018, and has a broad corporate commercial practice.
- Saskatchewan, 2009
- Ontario, 2009
- Master of Laws, Osgoode Hall Law School, 2019
- Juris Doctor (Distinction), University of Saskatchewan, 2008
- Bachelor of Arts (Honours), Queen's University, 2002
- Bachelor of Science, Queen's University, 2001
- Alastair M. Nicol Scholarship, 2007
- Canadian Bar Association (Saskatchewan Branch) Prize, 2007
- Saskatchewan Law Review, Managing Editor, 2007-2008
- Saskatchewan Law Review, Editorial Board, 2006-2007
- Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners (STEP) Canada
- Canadian Tax Foundation
- Canadian Bar Association
- Saskatchewan Branch, Taxation Law Section, Vice-Chair 2022 to present
- Business Women of Moose Jaw
- Regina Bar Association
- Law Society of Saskatchewan
- Centre Éducatif Pomme d’Api
- President, 2014-2016
- Director, 2012-2014
- Association des juristes d’expression française de la Saskatchewan
- Director, 2010-2012
- Saskatchewan Festival of Words
- Director, 2010-2012
- Moose Jaw Kinsmen Speed Skating Club
- Director, 2023 to present
- CREW Sask, 2022-present
- Moose Jaw Minor Hockey Association
- Atom A Warriors (Red), Team Manager, 2019-2020
- Novice A Warriors (Red), Team Manager, 2018-2019
- Moose Jaw and District Bar Association
- Social Coordinator, 2014-2015
- Laskin Memorial Moot Team, 2006-2007
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- French