Amanda Crowley Fraser

Weixler Law LLC
3640 Magazine St.
New Orleans, LA 70115

Amanda Crowley Fraser is an attorney, adjunct professor, former Deputy Trial Chief of the Orleans Public Defenders, and partner at Weixler Law LLC. She advises and represents clients in criminal defense and business dispute matters. Amanda guides her clients through all aspects of litigation, including discovery, motions practice, expert witness preparation, taking and defending depositions, and trial preparation. She also advises and represents filmmakers, producers, and subjects in the film and television industry in contract disputes and negotiations.

Prior to joining Weixler Law LLC, Amanda was a partner at the law firm of Pugh Accardo, LLC and counsel at Irwin Fritchie Urquhart Moore & Daniels, LLC where her practice primarily focused on business liability. Amanda began her career in 2006 with Orleans Public Defenders, where she served as Supervising Attorney, Director of Conflicts Division, and Deputy Trial Chief. She was lead counsel in cases ranging from simple possession of marijuana to second degree murder. Amanda handled investigation, bond hearings, motions hearings, expert testimony, supervisory writs, plea agreements, trials, and sentencing. In addition to her work in Orleans Parish, Amanda has also represented clients in criminal proceedings in Washington, DC.

Amanda earned her J.D. from Tulane Law School. While in law school, Amanda was a student practitioner in the civil litigation clinic and served as an editor and business manager of Tulane Law’s Journal of Law and Sexuality. Amanda also served as a law clerk at the United States Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division in Washington, DC, pursuing claims against corrupt law enforcement officials.

Amanda graduated cum laude from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst with a degree in Psychology and a master’s degree in forensic psychology from John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York City.

Amanda teaches Trial Advocacy at Tulane Law School and is a guest lecturer at Loyola University’s College of Law.

Amanda is admitted to practice in Louisiana State Courts, and and U.S. District Courts for the Eastern and Middle Districts of Louisiana.