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About the Attorney:
Andrew Brauer is proud to be a homegrown North Carolinian. After graduating from Cary High School, he enrolled at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he graduated as Valedictorian of his class of 4,516 students with a 4.0 GPA and earned a B.S. in Business Administration with Highest Honors and Highest Distinction from the Kenan-Flagler Business School. Andrew then traveled northward to Yale Law School for legal training, where he was actively involved in student-run journals, hands-on clinical work, and summer internships at both law firms and U.S. Attorneys’ Offices.
After graduating from Yale Law School, Andrew joined a large, well-respected Washington law firm. His supervising partners and senior associates immediately took advantage of his thirst for professional challenge by assigning him a wide-range of complex projects. These included representing a criminal defendant in an historic United States Supreme Court appeal, partnering with corporate clients on regulatory investigations and commercial litigation, crafting government relations strategy with former high-level federal executive officials, and supporting senior partners by researching and presenting technical legal analyses to Fortune 500 General Counsels.
While interning in the office of a prominent North Carolina State Representative, Andrew gained insight into the legislative process and immersed himself in state-level politics. For the Representative, he researched legal issues presented by proposed privacy legislation; responded to constituent requests for assistance; helped manage public appearances, press conferences, and lobbying appointments; conferred with public officials, executive agencies, and lobbyists on introduced bills; and drafted an op-ed article on underage drinking legislation.
Andrew also served as an appointed judicial law clerk to the esteemed Judge Leonard B. Sand of the Southern District of New York in Manhattan. A 30-year veteran of the federal bench, Judge Sand handled a number of high-profile cases, including the federal prosecutions of Al Qaeda terrorists who bombed African U.S. embassies in 1998, the Adelphia criminal corporate fraud trial, and the Yonkers, New York, public housing and public school desegregation effort. Judge Sand also quite literally wrote the book on drafting federal jury instructions. During his clerkship, Andrew provided legal advice and counsel to this well seasoned United States district court judge; researched and drafted court decisions, internal legal memoranda, and jury instructions in cases ranging from securities fraud and terrorism prosecutions to Social Security appeals and section 1983 civil actions against public officials; managed the court docket, interacted with litigating parties, and facilitated internal case processing; and attended motion hearings, pre-trial conferences, plea colloquies, sentencings, and jury trials.
Andrew has successfully honed the ”bread and butter” skill set of a successful litigation practice: negotiating effectively with opposing counsel; exploring fair and reasonable settlement possibilities; drafting complaints and answers; crafting successful motions to dismiss and for summary judgment; preparing and responding to complicated discovery issues; participating in witness preparation and depositions; and actively partnering with attorneys at the trial stage.
Education
Yale Law School, J.D., 2005
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, B.S. in Business Administration, 2002
· Graduated with Highest Honors and Highest Distinction
· Recipient of Kenan-Flagler’s Hampton Shuping Prize
· Valedictorian out of 4,516 UNC Class of 2002 Students (4.0 GPA)
Bar Admissions
North Carolina
U.S. District Court, Eastern District of North Carolina
District of Columbia
Publications
To Tell or Not to Tell: Weighing the Benefits and Pitfalls of Self-Reporting Corporate Wrongdoing, Sec. Reg. & L. Rep. (BNA), Mar. 27, 2006, and World Securities Law Report (BNA), May 2006 (with J. Bradley Bennett).
Bustillo v. Johnson, 05-51, U.S. Supreme Court.
Terrorist Financing Through the U.S. Nonprofit Sector: Towards a More Effective Balancing of Crucial Global Priorities, Yale Law School Supervised Analytic Writing, May 2005 (Unpublished Manuscript).
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