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Amber Collett

Associate

Phone:
208.388.4058
Fax:
208.954.5292
Email:
acollett@hawleytroxell.com

Biography

Amber Collett is an associate in the firm’s Banking, Business & Corporate, and Real Estate practice groups. Amber began her practice representing consumer and commercial lenders involving defense of lender liability claims, collections, and workout agreements. Her practice now focuses on commercial real estate finance, securitized lending, and legal compliance with banking and commercial lending regulations. She has experience negotiating, drafting, and completing due diligence on multimillion dollar real estate transactions, including Purchase and Sale Agreements, Deposit Account Control Agreements, legal opinions, environmental, insurance, and zoning reviews, loan documentation, modifications, assumptions, assignments, leases, and defeasance.

While attending law school, Amber was an active member of the legal community, holding several positions for the Idaho Law Review, serving as Events Coordinator for the Women’s Law Caucus, serving as Vice President of the Federal Bar Association, and serving as a Veteran’s Legal Wills Clinic Volunteer for the Idaho Military Legal Alliance. She also received two CALI Awards for being the highest-scoring student in her Insurance Law and Litigation: Planning & Drafting classes. Prior to law school, Amber cultivated her love of finance law by working as a personal banker, lending over $1 million annually in consumer loans.

BAR ADMISSIONS

Idaho

professional/COMMUNITY associations

Idaho Women Lawyers, Member

Idaho State Bar

Business & Corporations Section, Member
Real Property Section, Member
Taxation, Probate, Trusts Section, Member
Young Lawyers Section, Member

EDUCATION

Law School:

University of Idaho College of Law, J.D., 2022

Idaho Law Review
Technical Editor, Input Editor, 3L Mentor, & Associate Editor

Undergraduate:

Assumption University, B.A. Political Science, 2018

International Business Minor

CLERKSHIPS/EXTERNSHIPS

Chief Judge David C. Nye, Federal District Court, District of Idaho, U.S. Courts, Spring 2022

Hawley Troxell Summer Associate Program, 2021

Judge Andrea L. Courtney, Idaho District Court, Idaho’s Third Judicial District, Fall 2020

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