Andrew is an attorney in the firm’s General Liability Litigation group.
Before coming to Shook, Andrew worked in a private practice firm serving domestic and international clients across a broad range of industries. His experience includes representing an international products manufacturer as regional coordinating defense counsel and local counsel in a nationwide mass tort litigation. He has also represented several major chemical companies in toxic tort litigation, including the largest environmental toxic tort litigation in the state of Georgia. Andrew has conducted extensive legal and pragmatic research to analyze complex issues under federal and state laws, rules and regulations and has drafted and filed memoranda, discovery and dispositive motions, briefs, appeal applications and responses to notices of violation and objections to notices of deposition.
Andrew has also advised pesticide manufacturing companies to minimize risk exposure and resolve EPA enforcement actions and advised shipping and transportation companies in navigating state and federal laws and regulations governing the environment, including waste management and environmental compliance.
Andrew has a bachelor’s degree cum laude in criminal justice from the University of Georgia, and worked for Georgia’s Douglas County Juvenile Court Programs before attending law school. He earned his J.D. summa cum laude from Georgia State University College of Law, where he received academic awards and was inducted into the Order of the Coif. Upon graduation, he served as a judicial law clerk to U.S. Magistrate Judge Russell G. Vineyard of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia.
Representative Matters
Represented an international products manufacturer as regional coordinating defense counsel and local counsel in nationwide mass tort litigation.Represented several major chemical companies in nationwide toxic tort litigation, including the largest environmental toxic tort litigation in the state of Georgia.
Represented a major clean energy supplier in litigation to convert a crude oil refinery into a renewable fuels facility and secured a favorable settlement with the petitioners that resulted in the court setting aside its previous ruling to allow initial environmental project approvals to remain in effect.
Represented multiple large companies in protecting their information from public disclosure as confidential business information under various state laws.