Amanda Loughmiller
Practice Areas
Consumer Financial Litigation & Compliance
Financial Litigation
Education
- Baylor University, B.A., 1997
- Texas Tech University School of Law, J.D., 2000
Admitted to Practice
- Texas State Bar
- Mississippi State Bar
- Oklahoma Bar Association
- Utah State Bar
- U.S. Court Of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit
- U.S. Court Of Appeals, Fifth Circuit
- Alabama Northern and Southern Districts
- Colorado District Court
- Florida Northern District Court
- Mississippi Northern and Southern Districts
- Mississippi Southern District Court
- Oklahoma Eastern and Northern Districts
- Oklahoma Eastern Bankruptcy
- Texas Northern, Southern, and Western Districts
- Utah District Court
Awards & Honors
- Recipient of Strasburger’s Special Recognition Award Client Development (2015)
Affiliations and Memberships
- Collin County Bar Association
- Dallas Bar Association
- Attorneys Serving the Community - Former Publicity Committee Co-Chair
- Susan G. Komen for the Cure – North Texas Affiliate - Vice President and Board Member
- Strasburger BOLD co-chair (2017-2018)
- Recovery Inn - Board of Directors and Luncheon Chair (2012-2015)
- Baylor Business Network
- Baylor Women’s Counsel
Presentations
- Strasburger 2nd Annual Consumer Financial Litigation Symposium – Furnisher Reporting Under the FCRA
- Navigating a Credit Union’s Duties Under the Fair Credit Reporting Act, National Credit Union Collections Alliance (March 2017)
- FCRA: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly (June 2016)
- What You Need to Know about the Fair Debt Collections Practices Act and State Collection Laws (June 2016)
- Bankruptcy Laws and Reporting Under the FCRA (May 2016)
- FCRA Litigation & Issues, American Collectors Association of Texas Conference (March 2016)
- The Changing Landscape of GRAS: PHO, GMO and More, Strasburger Food Law Forum (September 2015)
- The Changing Landscape of GRAS: PHO, GMO and More, Strasburger Food Law Forum (April 2015)
Representative Experience
- Represents financial institutions in DTPA and creditors’ right in consumer bankruptcy.
- Represents and advises debt collectors and financial institutions regarding FCRA, FDCPA,TCPA, DTPA, TDTPA and creditors’ rights in consumer bankruptcy cases.
- Obtained summary judgements for a national credit reporting agency in FCRA matters.
- Negotiated zero dollar dismissals for a national credit reporting agency in FCRA matters.
- Obtained favorable settlements on behalf of a consumer reporting agency and debt collectors in FCRA cases.
- Successfully briefed and won discovery motions in federal courts. Represented independently owned water utility company in Texas Commission on Environmental Quality compliance and regulatory matters.
- Represented water utility in negotiations with municipality.
- Written and led roundtable discussions on regulatory labeling issues within the food industry.
Publications, Seminars, and Cases
- “Avoid Becoming a Casualty of the FCRA Litigation Minefield, insideARM First Party Summit” (June 2019)
- Ninth Circuit Opens Floodgates for Duplicative Mislabeling Claims in California, Strasburger’s Food & Drug Law Blog (September 2015)
- Consumers May Not use the FCRA to Collaterally Attack the Legal Validity of Their Debts, Strasburger’s FCRA Newsletter (October 2012)
- Plaintiff’s Statutory and Common Law Claims Against Furnisher Preempted by 15 U.S.C. 1681(t)(b)(1)(F), Strasburger’s FCRA Newsletter (June 2012)
- Court Held that Employer Failed to Prove that it’s Background Check Procedure and Consent Form Complied with the FCRA, Strasburger FCRA Newsletter (April 2012)
- Court Refused to Allow a Business to Step into the Consumer’s Shoes for the Purposes of FCRA, Strasburger’s FCRA Newsletter (April 2012)
