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Biography
Amy J. Amundsen is an experienced family law litigator, and now provides attorneys with virtual legal and business consulting services. She also offers mentoring and coaching for attorneys to enhance their legal career, as well as office management services.
Ms. Amundsen has a virtual collaborative divorce practice and is a member of the Memphis Collaborative Divorce Alliance (MCDA) and the International Academy of Collaborative Professionals (IACP). With her many years of experience litigating and working with professionals from other disciplines, she provides her collaborative clients insightful advice and recommendations to meet their interests. She is trained collaboratively through the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers (AAML) and attended a two day Negotiation Seminar by Harvard Law School Professor Robert C. Bordone.
Ms. Amundsen prepares prenuptial and postnuptial agreements as well as cohabitation agreements.
Ms. Amundsen is a Fellow in both the International Academy of Family Lawyers (IAFL) and American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers (AAML). Ms. Amundsen serves on the Tennessee Bar Association Family Law Section executive committee where she assists in drafting family law legislation and since 2001 through 2021, assisted in the annual publication of the Tennessee Bar Association Alimony Bench Book distributed to Tennessee judges and lawyers. Ms. Amundsen served as a Diplomat in the American College of Family Trial Lawyers (ACFTL), an organization limited to the top 100 divorce lawyers in the U.S. from 2014-2024.
She is a Rule 31 family law mediator and a family law arbitrator, trained through the AAML. Ms. Amundsen currently serves as co-chair of the AAML Arbitration committee and member of the AAML Continuing Legal Education, Legislation, and Collaborative and Mediation Committees. Because of her service on these committees, Ms. Amundsen knows the trending laws and issues on a national level and assists with trying to meet those challenges to improve the legal system.