Amber Eck

Amber Eck is a partner and trial attorney for Haeggquist & Eck, LLP. She is a tenacious advocate for employees, consumers, and shareholders. For the past 24 years, she’s helped such people recover millions of dollars in settlements. Many such settlements were in the six- and seven-figure range. Amber doesn’t shy away from high-profile defendants as demonstrated by her co-lead counsel role in the highly publicized class action against Donald Trump and Trump University, which settled for $25 million. That case spanned seven years, and despite the time and effort it took to hold the president accountable, Amber and her partners took no fees. Awards and Honors Super Lawyers® Selectees Amber Eck included in a Super Lawyers® list Honors Distinguished Service Award for Pro Bono Service Awarded by SDVLP, 2002 Wiley W. Manuel Award for Pro Bono Service Awarded by SDVLP, 1999 Alpha Chi National Honor Society, President, 1989-1990, Member, 1987-1990 San Diego Super Lawyer, 2017 - 2025 Super Lawyer Best 25 Women Lawyers in San Diego Best 50 Lawyers in San Diego, 2020 - 2025 U.S. News & World Reports, “Best Lawyers in America” and “Best Law Firm”, 2025 Best Lawyers in America, 2023 - 2026 San Diego Volunteer Lawyers Program Distinguished Service Award and Wiley W. Manuel Pro Bono Service Award Best of the Bar, San Diego Business Journal, 2016 - 2022 Finalist, San Diego Magazine Woman Of The Year Award Nominee, National Association of Women Business Owners’ Woman Business Owner of the Year and Trailblazer Awards Martindale Hubbell AV Preeminent Rated Avvo Rating 10.0 Top Attorney Top 50 Lawyers in San Diego Other Sources of Feedback About Amber Eck Included on the 2026San Diego Super Lawyers list Past Lists 2025 San Diego Super Lawyers list 2024 San Diego Super Lawyers list 2023 San Diego Super Lawyers list 2022 San Diego Super Lawyers list 2021 San Diego Super Lawyers list 2020 San Diego Super Lawyers list 2019 San Diego Super Lawyers list 2018 San Diego Super Lawyers list 2017 San Diego Super Lawyers list

• Partner

• Robbins Geller Rudman & Dowd, San Diego, CA (formerly Milberg Weiss Bershad Hynes & Lerach), Partner/Attorney, 1997 - 2008
• U.S. District Court, Southern District of California, Law Clerk to Magistrate Judge Jan M. Adler, 2008 - 2009
• Chapin, Fleming & Winet, Attorney and Summer Associate, 1994 - 1997
• Harvard School of Public Health, Research Assistant, 1993
• Metropolitan News-Enterprise, Writer, Photo Editor, Photographer, 1990 - 1992

• Lecturer, Lawyers Club and Thomas Jefferson School of Law sponsored symposium regarding Small Law Firms and Sole Practitioners, 2010

• In re Ecotality, Inc.
• Citation: 2015 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 114804 (Aug. 28, 2015)
• Cohen v. Trump, 303 F.R.D. 376 (S.D. Cal., Oct. 24, 2014)
• Makaeff v. Trump Univ., LLC, 26 F. Supp. 3d 1002 (S.D. Cal., June 16, 2004)
• Cohen v. Trump
• Citation: 2014 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 23885 (S.D. Cal., Feb. 21, 2014)
• Makaeff v. Trump Univ., LLC, 2014 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 22392 (S.D. Cal., Feb. 21, 2014)
• Makaeff v. Trump Univ., LLC
• Citation: 715 F.3d 254 (9th Cir., April 17, 2013)
• Brennan v. United States TelePacific Corp.
• Citation: 2013 Cal. App. Unpub. LEXIS 712 (4th Dist. Ct. App., Jan. 30, 2013)
• West Palm Beach Police Pension Fund v. Cardionet, Inc.
• Citation: 2011 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 30607 (S.D. Cal., Mar. 24, 2011)
• In re Sony VAIO Computer Notebook Trackpad Litig.
• Citation: 2010 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 115142 (S.D. Cal., Oct. 27, 2010)
• Lane v. Page (“Westland”)
• Citation: 581 F. Supp. 2d 1094 (D.N.M.)
• In re Wireless Facilities, Inc.
• Citation: 253 F.R.D. 607 (S.D. Cal., Sept. 3, 2008)
• New Eng. Health Care Emples. Pension Fund v. Fruit of the Loom, Inc.
• Citation: 234 F.R.D. 627 (W.D.Ky., Mar. 17, 2006)
• In re Sprint Corp. Secs. Litig.
• Citation: 2004 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 7898 (D. Kan., Feb. 24, 2004)
• StorMedia Inc. v. Superior Court
• Citation: 20 Cal. 4th 449 (May 27, 1999)

• Distinguished Service Award for Pro Bono Service in Sanchez v. County of San Diego, 2002
• Wiley W. Manuel Pro Bono Service Award for Badua v. City of San Diego, 1999
• United States District Court for the Southern District of California’s Pro Bono Panel, 2019 - 2029
• Welsh Inn of Court, Master
• Girl Scouts of America, Troop Leader, Member
• Volunteer, Genesis Diaz (Baja, Mexico)
• Deacon, Point Loma Community Presbyterian Church
• Lawyers Club of San Diego, Sustaining Member, 1995 - 2000
• Consumer Attorneys of San Diego

• U.S. District Court Northern District of California
• U.S. District Court Central District of California
• U.S. District Court Eastern District of California
• U.S. District Court Southern District of California
• U.S. District Court District of Nevada

• Federal Bar Association, 1997-2000
• San Diego County Bar Association, 1995 - Present
• American Inns of Court, Louis M Welsh Chapter, 2009 - 2011 (Barrister)
• San Diego Barristers Club, Board of Directors, 1996 - 1998
• California Employment Lawyers Association (CELA)
• Fraternities and Sororities
• Phi Alpha Delta Legal Fraternity