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Provided by Amber K. Dodds
Amber Dodds counsels employers in all areas of employment law, including issues such as leave administration, pay practices, employee classification, investigations, use of background checks and consumer reports, employee discipline, and preventing harassment and retaliation claims. She drafts employment policies, agreements, and employee handbooks specific to client industry and management needs. In addition to regulatory and employment-law compliance advice, Amber represents employers in administrative investigation and hearings, settlement negotiations, and federal and state court litigation. Her litigation matters have included a variety of employment-law claims, such as retaliation, wrongful termination, discrimination, harassment, enforcement of restrictive covenants and wage-and-hour matters in the public, private and religious organization employer context.
Amber also devotes a significant portion of her practice to counseling clients in the labor and employment aspects of large merger and acquisition transactions, including diligence, strategizing on employment issues, risk analysis, integrating third-party staffing entities, and drafting relevant provisions of purchase agreements, transition services agreements and other related documents.
Texas Bar Foundation, Fellow, 2022
Concordia University, Nebraska, Personnel Committee, 2016 – 2025
YWCA San Antonio, Board of Directors, Member 2014 – 2019; Board Secretary 2018 – 2019
Board Certified in Labor and Employment by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization
The University of Texas School of Law, J.D., 2012, with honors
Boston University, Master of Theological Studies, 2008, summa cum laude
Trinity University, B.A., 2006, summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa
Provided by Chambers
Amber K. Dodds serves as Bracewell LLP's managing partner in San Antonio. She is increasingly recognized for her active practice spanning terminations, discrimination and ongoing employment advisory work.
Provided by Chambers
Amber is responsive, knowledgeable and knows us very well as a business.
Amber gives us great guidance and really understands the practicality of a business approach. She helps us anticipate things that might come up and is very thorough.
Amber is very knowledgeable and a pleasure to work with.
Amber Dodds delivers consistent, high-level service. She is accessible, engaged and proactive and reflects not just legal precision, but a grasp of our risk appetite and operational realities.
Amber is responsive, knowledgeable and knows us very well as a business.
Amber gives us great guidance and really understands the practicality of a business approach. She helps us anticipate things that might come up and is very thorough.
Amber is very knowledgeable and a pleasure to work with.
Amber Dodds delivers consistent, high-level service. She is accessible, engaged and proactive and reflects not just legal precision, but a grasp of our risk appetite and operational realities.