Amber D. Crow

Amber is part of Fredrikson’s Employment, Labor & Benefits Group and assists businesses with their employment-related litigation as well as their compliance and immigration matters.

Amber advises employers on a variety of employment, compliance, and immigration issues and represents them in all stages of litigation, including administrative proceedings and investigations. She drafts employment policies, contracts and handbooks, and assists with other employment issues that occur outside of litigation.

Amber has litigated in federal and state courts across the country. Prior to joining Fredrikson, Amber was a business litigator at another large firm where she primarily served clients in the insurance and financial services industries. Amber was instrumental for clients in reaching favorable outcomes through mediation and litigation.

Amber received her Juris Doctorate degree with highest honors from the University of Iowa College of Law. There, Amber served as a student practitioner at the University of Iowa College of Law’s Immigration Advocacy Clinic, representing clients seeking visas, asylum, lawful permanent residence and citizenship status in the United States. She also served as a student practitioner at the University of Iowa College of Law’s Law and Policy in Action Clinic, where she advocated for mobile home park tenants at the Iowa Legislature.

While in law school Amber was elected as the president and cabinet director for the University of Iowa Graduate and Professional Student Government, where she advocated for the interests of 10,000 students at the local, state and federal levels while working closely with university leadership and the Iowa Board of Regents. Amber was selected by the Iowa State Bar Association as the most “Outstanding Student” at the University of Iowa for her attitude, ability and other qualities that indicate her success as a future leader of the Iowa Bar.

• Previously worked at another large firm as a business litigator in the insurance and financial services industries.
• Successfully achieved asylum status for family from Afghanistan.
• Participated in the University of Iowa College of Law’s Immigration Advocacy Clinic and Law and Policy in Action Clinic.
• Published in the Minnesota State Bar Association’s Bench + Bar Magazine on Name, Image, and Likeness (NIL) in Minnesota.

Education

• University of Iowa College of Law, J.D., 2023, highest honors
• University of Iowa, B.A., B.A., 2019, with honors

Admissions

• U.S District Court for the Northern District of Iowa, 2024
• U.S District Court for the Southern District of Iowa, 2023
• Iowa, 2023

• Future Leader of the Iowa State Bar Association, University of Iowa College of Law, 2023
• Willard L. Boyd Public Service Distinction Highest Service Honors, University of Iowa College of Law, 2023

Professional Activities

• University of Iowa Graduates of the Last Decade (GOLD) Leadership Group, Member, present
• Iowa State Bar Association Young Lawyer’s Division, 5C At-Large Representative, present
• Iowa State Bar Association, Member, present
• University of Iowa Graduate and Professional Student Government, Cabinet Director, 2021-2022; President, 2022-2023
• University of Iowa College of Law First-Generation Lawyers, President, 2021-2022
• University of Iowa College of Law Organization of Women Law Students and Staff, Conference Chair, 2021-2022
• University of Iowa College of Law Pro Bono Society, Member, 2020-2023
• University of Iowa College of Law Student Ambassador, Member, 2021-2023
• University of Iowa College of Law Appellate Advocacy I and II, Competitor; Judge