About Amanda L.
Amanda L. Brasfield began her academic path at the University of Illinois, where she earned a Bachelor of Arts in 2006. She went on to earn her J.D. from Loyola University Chicago School of Law in 2010. Those years in school laid the groundwork for a career spent mostly inside a single practice community, moving from support roles into lead counsel positions.
Her entry into the legal workplace came early. In 2004 she worked as a paralegal and law clerk at Kralovec, Jambois & Schwartz. That experience spanned law school and provided day-to-day exposure to litigation practice and plaintiff-side trial preparation. After graduating from Loyola in 2010 she continued at the same firm as a lawyer. The continuity offered an unusual throughline from clerkship to courtroom work. In 2017 a new firm name emerged on her business cards: Mannarino & Brasfield, a division of Kralovec, Jambois & Schwartz, where she practiced as a lawyer.
Colleagues describe Brasfield as methodical in case preparation and careful in client communication. She has handled matters typical of a plaintiff-side trial practice and has spent many hours in discovery, depositions and court hearings. Her early years performing paralegal tasks gave her a familiarity with the procedural detail that often determines how a case moves forward. The record shows steady responsibility rather than rapid lateral moves.
Brasfield is active in professional circles. She holds memberships in the American Association for Justice and the American Bar Association. At the state and local level she is part of the Illinois State Bar Association and the Chicago Bar Association. She is also a member of organizations that focus on trial practice and women in the profession, including the Illinois Trial Lawyers Association, the Women’s Bar Association of Illinois and the Women’s Trial Lawyer Caucus.
Her practice has been rooted in Illinois throughout. That continuity has allowed her to develop familiarity with local judges, court procedures and opposing counsel patterns. She has remained connected to the firms where she trained, rising from clerical and support roles into an attorney position and shared-firm leadership that carries the Mannarino & Brasfield name.
As of 2026 she continues to practice law in Illinois. Her work centers on plaintiff-side litigation and trial-related matters in state courts, where she handles case preparation, discovery and courtroom advocacy.
