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Amber Trzinski Fox

Associate

She/Her/Hers

Amber Trzinski Fox provides strategic counseling on complex employment issues including discrimination and harassment, pay equity, accommodations, leaves of absence, and employment policies. Amber is a member of the firm’s Workplace Culture Consulting and Training practice, where she partners with clients to establish safe, respectful, diverse, and inclusive workplaces. In addition to her counseling practice, Amber represents companies in employment matters involving workplace discrimination and retaliation, and she conducts internal investigations into allegations of workplace misconduct.

Amber’s prior experience as a senior advisor and women’s policy counsel to a commissioner at the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) gives her a unique perspective to share with clients. Amber offers employers distinctive insights on employment issues and works with clients to identify high-risk areas and solutions to complex workplace issues. With more than a decade of experience working for government agencies and employment law firms, Amber is well positioned to help employers improve existing frameworks and build out comprehensive employment policies and practices with a focus on corporate culture and litigation avoidance.

At the EEOC, Amber advised the commissioner on substantive legal issues involving pay equity, LGBTQIA+ rights, pregnancy discrimination, and women’s rights. She also worked as a trial attorney at the EEOC, litigating individual and class action cases alleging violations of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Pregnancy Discrimination Act, the Equal Pay Act, the Age Discrimination in Employment Act, the Americans with Disabilities Act, and various other laws enforced by the Commission.

Following her work with the EEOC, Amber also litigated USERRA and Title VII cases for the Department of Justice’s Employment Litigation Section. Prior to her government service, Amber worked at employment law firms on matters involving sexual harassment, sex and pregnancy discrimination, sexual orientation discrimination, disability discrimination, systemic race discrimination, and separation agreements.

Amber previously served as a law clerk to Judge Ronald L. Ellis of the US District Court for the Southern District of New York.

  • University of Denver, 2009, J.D.
  • University of Southern California, 2001, B.S.
  • California
  • District of Columbia
  • New York
  • Clerkship to Judge Ronald L. Ellis of the US District Court for the Southern District of New York (2009 - 2010)

Co-Chair, Diversity Equity and Inclusion in the Legal Profession Committee, American Bar Association Labor and Employment Section