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Andrew has been recognized in Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch (2023-2025) for appellate practice, and was named a Rising Star in Supreme Court and appellate litigation by The Legal 500 (2022). He has also been featured in the 2021-2024 editions of The Legal 500, with clients praising his “big-picture thinking” and “sophisticated view on how the executive branch operates.”

Andrew co-directs Yale Law School’s Supreme Court Advocacy Clinic, working with the next generation of leading lawyers to litigate cases pro bono before the Court. Prior to joining the firm, Andrew served as a law clerk to the Honorable Kim McLane Wardlaw on the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. While in law school, he was a forum editor of the Yale Law Journal.

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• Working through the Yale Supreme Court Advocacy Clinic, successfully petitioned for certiorari and won reversal in the Supreme Court on behalf of a pro bono immigration client, expanding federal court jurisdiction over agency decisions
• In a major ANDA appeal in the Federal Circuit, obtained reversal of a district court’s sua sponte invalidation of certain patent claims
• In the US District Court for the District of Columbia, secured vacatur of an HHS regulation that had authorized harmful insurance practices
• Argued and won a qualified immunity appeal in the Eighth Circuit for an incarcerated pro bono client
• In the US District Court for the Western District of Texas, invalidated the SEC’s unlawful attempt to rescind regulations without undergoing notice and comment rulemaking
• Argued and won a Section 1983 appeal in the Fifth Circuit in a high-profile case of police brutality
• In the California Court of Appeal, obtained reversal of adverse summary judgment decisions in a long-running employment class action
• Helped secure Supreme Court victory in a case that significantly narrowed the administrative law doctrine of Auer deference to agency interpretations

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