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. A representative sample of her work includes:

• Representing the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico in its ongoing debt restructuring.
• Defending a hedge fund client against a securities fraud class action.
• Representing two mortgage servicers in False Claims Act qui tam litigation arising out of the Home Affordable Modification Program. 
• Defended a broker-dealer in litigation and three FINRA arbitrations arising from its marketing and sale of auction-rate securities. Obtained summary judgment victory in federal court. 
• Represented a major multinational manufacturing company in a criminal antitrust investigation which resulted in no charges filed against the client.

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.