Profile

Amber is a business adviser whose legal and business experience enables her to understand the goals of her clients, to anticipate potential problems and to strategize to implement workable creative corporate solutions. 

Amber’s primary responsibilities include contract drafting and review for complex contracts, mergers, acquisitions, corporate and limited liability company formation and dissolution, stock transfers and redemptions. She also advises clients on regulatory compliance, reorganization, restructuring, corporate governance and contract disputes. 

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  • Listed in:
    • The Best Lawyers in America® Ones to Watch, Corporate Law; Mergers and Acquisitions Law and Privacy and Data Security, 2021-2024
    • New York Super Lawyers® Rising Star, Technology Transactions, 2023 
  • New York State Bar Association 
  • Onondaga County Bar Association
  • CNY Women’s Bar Association 
  • Syracuse College of Law Alternate Dispute Resolution Competition, Winner Fall, 2016
  • Syracuse College of Law Alternate Dispute Resolution Competition, Best Advocate, Fall 2016
  • Business Editor, Volume 67, Syracuse Law Review; Editorial Member, Volume 66
  • Moot Court Honor Society
  • St. Lawrence University, Government Honors, Thesis: Public Financing of Elections: A Comparative Analysis of US Presidential and US Gubernatorial Elections, 2014.
  • Bernard J. Lammers Award, Leadership and Research in the Study of Government, 2014 
  • Omicron Delta Kappa

  • Panelist, Don't Crack Under Pressure: Why Tabletop Exercises are Important!, iSecure, January 31, 2024
  • A Special Episode Celebrating Cybersecurity Awareness Month, Legally Bond Podcast, October 10, 2023
  • Developing a Strategy to Comply with Multiple State Privacy Laws, International Legal Technology Association, October 25, 2022
  • Legal Issues in Cyber Incident Response, MACNY Cybersecurity Summit, September 29, 2022
  • Panelist, Buffalo chapter of The Institute for Supply Management®, “Cybersecurity Risk Mitigation; Lessons Learned from Ransomware Triage,” May 6, 2022
  • Co-Panelist alongside Scott Charney, VP of Security Policy at Microsoft Corporation and Kevin Minsky, Senior Legal Counsel of Product Compliance at DocuSign; Cybersecurity and Data Privacy Career Panel, Syracuse University College of Law, February 17, 2022
  • A Special Episode with Amber Lawyer, World Data Privacy Day, Legally Bond Podcast, January 28, 2022
  • An Interview with Amber Lawyer, Cybersecurity and Data Privacy, Legally Bond Podcast, September 27, 2021
  • NY SHIELD Act – Are You in Compliance?, Human Resources Association of the Twin Tiers, August 12, 2021
  • The ABCs of Data Privacy: GDPR, CCPA, NY SHIELD Act and More, Monroe County Bar Association, April 16, 2020
  • Data Privacy and Cybersecurity Legal Overview: How to Comply With New Data Protection Laws and What to do in the Event of a Data Breach, MACNY Cyber Security Summit, March 13, 2020
  • GDPR, California Consumer Privacy Act, and NY SHIELD Act, American Payroll Association NYS Capital Region Chapter Meeting, September 19, 2019

  • Selection Committee, Kurt Wimmer IAPP Westin Scholar Award
  • Association for Data and Cyber Governance
  • Board Member, Syracuse City Ballet, Inc.