Amber is a litigator who focuses on securities litigation and restructuring. Much of her work has been on major cases for financial services institutions involving topics such as financial products, mortgage servicing, and debtor/creditor issues.
Informed by her experience as a public school teacher, Amber focuses much of her pro bono practice on vulnerable teenagers, including immigration proceedings for a boy from Burundi brought to the United States for lifesaving medical treatment, and a girl fleeing gang violence in El Salvador. Amber has conducted “Know Your Rights” workshops for teenagers and listening sessions with local police officers at a public housing community center in Brooklyn. In addition to her work with children, Amber has traveled to immigration detention centers to assist detained migrants with their applications for asylum in the United States, and represented several women’s health clinics in reproductive rights litigation in Virginia.
Amber also has an active pro bono practice, focusing on youth issues. Her experience includes:
- Representing abandoned child brought to the United States for lifesaving medical treatment in his application for Special Immigrant Juvenile Status.
- Facilitated multiple workshops with youth and police officers on community-police interactions.
Admissions
Bar Admissions
- New Jersey
- New York
Court Admissions
- US District Court, Southern District of New York
- US Court of Appeals, First Circuit
Education
- Columbia University, J.D.: James Kent Scholar and Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar; Notes Editor, Columbia Journal of European Law
- Drew University, B.A., English
Professional Activities
Clerkships
- Honorable Martin Glenn, US Bankruptcy Court, Southern District of New York