Amanda J.Hailey
Counsel
Labor & Employment
ahailey@seyfarth.com
Amanda understands the legal and personal components of the employer-employee relationship. She helps keep her clients’ workforces thriving while never losing sight of their business objectives.
More About Amanda
Amanda helps employers navigate the complexities of the employer-employee relationship. She advises clients on tough questions related to employment discrimination, leave of absence requests, reasonable accommodations, workplace harassment, and difficult workplace conflicts.
Amanda’s experience as an employee relations specialist helped her learn about the difficulties that her clients face on a day-to-day basis. As a former HR professional, she can easily relate to her clients from a first-hand perspective.
Amanda has a Master’s degree in Industrial/Organizational Psychology, has worked as an HR professional, and has practiced employment law. As such, she truly understands that employment law includes both legal and humanistic components. That knowledge allows her to provide sound and practical advice to her clients.
Her educational and professional background allows her to bring a fresh perspective to her cases. Amanda’s advice is always forward-thinking. She helps solve immediate issues and future problems. Amanda loves counseling clients through challenging workplace conflicts.
Amanda’s experience as an employee relations specialist helped her learn about the difficulties that her clients face on a day-to-day basis. As a former HR professional, she can easily relate to her clients from a first-hand perspective.
Amanda has a Master’s degree in Industrial/Organizational Psychology, has worked as an HR professional, and has practiced employment law. As such, she truly understands that employment law includes both legal and humanistic components. That knowledge allows her to provide sound and practical advice to her clients.
Her educational and professional background allows her to bring a fresh perspective to her cases. Amanda’s advice is always forward-thinking. She helps solve immediate issues and future problems. Amanda loves counseling clients through challenging workplace conflicts.
- JD, University of Washington School of Law
Dean’s Medalist, 2016
Extern for The Honorable Robert S. Lasnik, US District Court , Western District of Washington, Winter Quarter 2016
Washington Law Review, notes and comments editor
Innocence Project Northwest Clinic participant
King County Bar Foundation scholar - MA, Seattle Pacific University
Industrial/Organizational Psychology - BS, University of Washington
Psychology
UW Homecoming Queen, Scholarship recipient
Costco Diversity Scholarship recipient
Mortar Board Honor Society treasurer
International Honor Society, UW Chapter, Psi Chi member
- Washington
- US District Court, Western District of Washington
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Amanda understands the legal and personal components of the employer-employee relationship. She helps keep her clients’ workforces thriving while never losing sight of their business objectives.
More About Amanda
Amanda helps employers navigate the complexities of the employer-employee relationship. She advises clients on tough questions related to employment discrimination, leave of absence requests, reasonable accommodations, workplace harassment, and difficult workplace conflicts.
Amanda’s experience as an employee relations specialist helped her learn about the difficulties that her clients face on a day-to-day basis. As a former HR professional, she can easily relate to her clients from a first-hand perspective.
Amanda has a Master’s degree in Industrial/Organizational Psychology, has worked as an HR professional, and has practiced employment law. As such, she truly understands that employment law includes both legal and humanistic components. That knowledge allows her to provide sound and practical advice to her clients.
Her educational and professional background allows her to bring a fresh perspective to her cases. Amanda’s advice is always forward-thinking. She helps solve immediate issues and future problems. Amanda loves counseling clients through challenging workplace conflicts.
Amanda’s experience as an employee relations specialist helped her learn about the difficulties that her clients face on a day-to-day basis. As a former HR professional, she can easily relate to her clients from a first-hand perspective.
Amanda has a Master’s degree in Industrial/Organizational Psychology, has worked as an HR professional, and has practiced employment law. As such, she truly understands that employment law includes both legal and humanistic components. That knowledge allows her to provide sound and practical advice to her clients.
Her educational and professional background allows her to bring a fresh perspective to her cases. Amanda’s advice is always forward-thinking. She helps solve immediate issues and future problems. Amanda loves counseling clients through challenging workplace conflicts.
- JD, University of Washington School of Law
Dean’s Medalist, 2016
Extern for The Honorable Robert S. Lasnik, US District Court , Western District of Washington, Winter Quarter 2016
Washington Law Review, notes and comments editor
Innocence Project Northwest Clinic participant
King County Bar Foundation scholar - MA, Seattle Pacific University
Industrial/Organizational Psychology - BS, University of Washington
Psychology
UW Homecoming Queen, Scholarship recipient
Costco Diversity Scholarship recipient
Mortar Board Honor Society treasurer
International Honor Society, UW Chapter, Psi Chi member
- Washington
- US District Court, Western District of Washington
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Related News & Insights
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Attorney Publication
May 15, 2025
Now Available! Washington Peculiarities: An Employer's Guide to Labor & Employment Laws in the Evergreen State
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Recognition
Aug 19, 2021
Seyfarth Attorneys Named in The Best Lawyers in America 2022
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Legal Update
Nov 10, 2020
Washington’s Increased Minimum Wage Will Bump Washington’s Salary Threshold for Exempt Employees Above Federal Requirements on January 1, 2021
-
Legal Update
Sep 8, 2020
Mandatory Arbitration Provision Struck Down by the Washington Supreme Court
- Recognized as a "Ones to Watch" lawyer by Best Lawyers in America (Woodward/White Inc.) for Litigation - Labor and Employment (2021-2022) and Labor and Employment Law - Management (2022)
- Named to The National Black Lawyers Association’s Top 40 Under 40 List for Washington (2020)
- Co-Author, "Washington’s Increased Minimum Wage Will Bump Washington’s Salary Threshold for Exempt Employees Above Federal Requirements on January 1, 2021," Legal Update, Seyfarth Shaw LLP (November 10, 2020)
- Co-Author, "Mandatory Arbitration Provision Struck Down by the Washington Supreme Court," Legal Update, Seyfarth Shaw LLP (September 8, 2020)
- Northwest African American Museum board member