Amber Gordon

Amber Gordon is a dedicated criminal defense attorney who has represented clients accused of offenses ranging from catalytic converter theft, domestic violence, torture, police shootings, and robbery to narcotics trafficking and homicide. She has deeply studied California’s STEP Act and gang-related prosecutions and has collaborated with leading experts in gang and organized-crime matters. Ms. Gordon is a member of the California State Bar and its Criminal Law Section, the Los Angeles County, Beverly Hills, and San Fernando Valley Bar Associations, Women Lawyers of Los Angeles, the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, the California Public Defender’s Association, and Lawyers of Distinction. She studied political science and psychology at Clark University and earned Bachelor of Arts degrees in both fields at the University of San Diego, focusing on argument, storytelling, cognitive psychology (including eyewitness unreliability and memory/perception), and conducting research on race in jury decision-making and application of the felony‑murder rule. At McGeorge School of Law she earned a Criminal Law certificate (May 2010) and a Capital Commendation for Public Service after internships and jury trials as a certified law student. She interned with multiple public defender offices, volunteered post-bar at the Stanislaus County Public Defender, and subsequently opened her own firm.