Amber Arias is a litigation attorney in Buchalter’s Denver office and a member of the firm’s Litigation Practice Group. She represents financial advisory firms, registered investment advisers, broker-dealers, and individual advisors in trade secret litigation, restrictive covenant enforcement, and Protocol for Broker Recruiting matters.
Amber’s practice is national. She represents clients coast to coast in state and federal courts, FINRA arbitration, AAA commercial arbitration, and in mediation. Her cases regularly involve cross-jurisdictional issues, expedited injunctive relief, and parallel proceedings in court and FINRA.
She is particularly experienced in advisor transition litigation: cases that arise when a team moves between firms and the prior firm files for a TRO, asserts trade secret misappropriation, or seeks to enforce non-solicitation, non-competition, or garden-leave provisions. Amber defends firms and the advisors they hire against these claims, with experience across wirehouses, independent broker-dealers, hybrid, and RIAs.