Andrew L. Chang

Andrew focuses on individual, mass tort and class actions involving automotive, pharmaceutical, medical device and other consumer products, and employment claims. With experience in all phases of civil litigation, Andrew has drafted and argued successful motions, briefs and appeals for matters before both state and federal courts and participated in numerous jury trials. Andrew represents companies in employment, business, and consumer litigation related to California wage-and-hour, expense-reimbursement, and overtime, insurance coverage, consumer protection, automotive and other warranties, contract disputes, trade secrets, copyright infringement, and architectural design and construction law. 

Some of Andrew’s recent experience includes:

• successfully compelling individual arbitration of putative class action, enforcing class action waiver;
• defeating class certification of a putative employment class action;
• successfully compelling arbitration of claims against a non-signatory automobile manufacturer based on a dealership’s arbitration agreement in a coordinated automobile-warranty proceeding;
• working up, arguing dispositive motions, trying and handling appeals for numerous fraud and automobile-warranty actions;
• defeating a proposed nationwide class action involving claims that an automaker violated the Song-Beverly Act by deducting repair costs for abnormal wear on allegedly defective vehicles returned under buyback settlement agreements;
• representing two defendants in a state antitrust action against the pharmaceutical industry from successful summary judgment through appeal;
• drafting and successfully arguing several claim-dispositive motions in a breach of contract and trade secret action;
• briefed winning motion to deny class certification before discovery in a putative nationwide class action against one of the world’s largest retailers for alleged consumer fraud regarding products labeled “Made in USA”;
• conceiving, drafting and managing the preparation of dispositive motions in claims brought by thousands of individual employees in a Fair Labor Standards Act collective action, resulting in favorable settlement;
• analyzing and responding to claims seeking defense or indemnity under supplier/distributor, insurance and surety contracts; and
• defending numerous manufacturers of a variety of products in product liability actions through trial and settlement.

As a board member of the Bar Association of San Francisco Justice & Diversity Center, and an active member of the Asian-American Bar Association and Bay Area Lawyers for Individual Freedom, Andrew seeks to ensure diversity in all walks of life.

During law school, Andrew served as a judicial extern for Los Angeles Superior Court to The Hon. Haley J. Fromholz (retired).