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Andrew George

 

Andrew George is an experienced first-chair trial attorney who works tirelessly to develop compelling and authentic legal defenses.

 

Engaged in high profile matters spanning from the criminal defense of a pro-bowl running back to the effort to bring home a famous killer whale, Andrew’s work and analysis has been featured in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, USA Today, CNN, Time, The Hollywood Reporter, and many others. 

 

Andrew’s white collar and government enforcement work includes defense of individuals and corporations facing allegations of fraud, health care fraud and false statements, conspiracy, money laundering, anti-kickback law, environmental crimes, financial aid fraud, tax fraud, price fixing, the False Claims Act, FARA violations, FCPA violations, and other white-collar crimes.

 

Andrew also represents and advises companies and individuals in a wide range of civil disputes involving consumer protection laws, false advertising and defamation claims, privacy laws, antitrust laws, the Anti-Terrorism Act, contract and tort disputes, and disputes over intellectual property.

Andrew is also an adjunct law professor at Georgetown University Law Center, and he previously taught at George Washington University Law School. 

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Before joining Alex and Rebecca to start a new firm, Andrew practiced for 15 years at a large international law firm, in Washington, DC.  He lives in Chevy Chase, Maryland, with his wife and their three children and rabbit.

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REPRESENTATIVE MATTERS​
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Government Enforcement

 

  • Lead trial counsel for Clinton Portis in healthcare fraud prosecution, resulting in a hung jury.

  • Defense of a religious leader through a multi-year fraud investigation, ending with a declination of charges.

  • Defense of a cardiologist during a nearly five-year health care fraud investigation, ending with a declination of charges.

  • Defense of Amazon.com in FTC enforcement action relating to Amazon Flex tipping practices.

  • Defense of dental products distributor in FTC enforcement action for alleged group boycott.

  • Obtained presidential clemency for a medical administrator convicted of health care fraud.

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Civil and Regulatory 

  • Lead counsel for Friends of Toki—the organization that worked to return Tokitae the killer whale to her native waters before her untimely passing.

  • Defense of the first two biotechnology companies sued by the Estate of Henrietta Lacks for alleged unjust enrichment.

  • Defense of Philips Respironics in a wide-ranging commercial dispute following a worldwide CPAP and ventilator recall.

  • Defense of D.C. businessman facing civil sexual assault allegations, resulting in voluntary dismissal by the plaintiff.

 

Pro Bono

  • Lead counsel for the team that exonerated Jason Lively after 15 years’ wrongful imprisonment.

  • Lead counsel for the team that obtained nearly $1 million in compensation for Hubert James Williams, a homeless man who wrongfully spent 12 years in prison.

  • Co-lead counsel for the team that won a full dismissal of charges against immigration advocate Lundy Khoy.

  • Lead trial counsel for an Alabama man charged with capital murder. The trial ended with a non-capital sentence.

  • Lead trial counsel for a juvenile accused of a home break-in and assault, resulting in acquittal.

  • Lead counsel in obtaining an unprecedented injunction protecting a Virginia SWAT officer from improper disclosure of personally identifying information.

  • Lead trial counsel by court appointment for a prisoner in a Section 1983 lawsuit.

  • Obtained asylum for an oppressed Bolivian man facing deportation.

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Andrew George

EDUCATION / JUDICIAL CLERKSHIPS

 

University of Virginia School of Law, J.D., 2008

Notes Editor, Virginia Law Review

Quarterfinalist, William Minor Lyle Moot Court

 

American University, B.A., 2003, Cum laude

 

Law Clerk to the Honorable James C. Cacheris

United States District Court for the

Eastern District of Virginia (Alexandria)

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ADMISSIONS + PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

 

Board of Directors, 

Mid-Atlantic Innocence Project (2017-23)

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District of Columbia Bar

 

Pennsylvania Bar

 

Virginia State Bar

 

United States Supreme Court

 

United States Courts of Appeals for the 

Federal, Fourth, and Fifth Circuits

 

United States District Court for the 

District of Columbia

 

United States District Courts for the 

Eastern and Western Districts of Michigan

 

United States District Court for the 

Eastern District of Pennsylvania

 

United States District Courts for the 

Eastern and Western Districts of Virginia

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PUBLICATION AND LECTURES

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  • Alec Baldwin’s Rust Prosecutors Should Do Their Talking In Court, The Hollywood Reporter, March 2023 (Op-Ed.) (co-author)

  • Reconsidering Joint and Several Restitution, The Champion, October 2021 (co-author)

  • A Court Corrects a Medical Injustice, The Wall Street Journal, March 2020 (Op-Ed.) (co-author)

  • Book Review: Scientific Evidence in Civil and Criminal Cases (8th Ed.), The Champion, April 2021 (co-author)

  • Stent Cases and the Criminalization of Medical Judgment, Circulation, December 2019 (co-author)

  • Book Review: Cardiac Arrest, The Champion, September 2019 (co-author)

  • Medicare’s Hospice Rules Could Make Your Doctor A Criminal, The Wall Street Journal, Mar. 21, 2019 (Op-Ed.) (co-author)

  • A Second Opinion Becomes A Guilty Verdict, The Wall Street Journal, Dec. 27, 2018 (Op-Ed.) (co-author)

  • Book Review: Why They Do It: Inside The Mind of the White Collar Criminal, The Champion (October 2018) (co-author)

  • Do we have to ban healthcare to prevent fraud?, Home Healthcare Now (May 2018) (co-author)

  • Book Review: The Chickenshit Club: Why the Justice Department Fails to Prosecute Executives, The Champion, April 2018 (co-author)

  • Book Review: You Have the Right to Remain Innocent, The Champion (February 2018) (co-author)

  • Trust (your employees), but verify (what they are doing).  And keep the verification.  Home Healthcare Now (March 2018) (co-author)

  • Dispatches from a takedown.  Home Healthcare Now (January 2018) (co-author)

  • Home Health Care and the Medicare Fraud Strike Force, Home Healthcare Now (November 2017) (co-author)

  • Book Review: Unfair: The New Science of Criminal Injustice, The Champion (Nov. 2016)

  • Book Review: Too Big to Jail: How Prosecutors Compromise with Corporations, The Champion (May 2015) (co-author)

  • Book Review: The Price of Silence: The Duke Lacrosse Scandal, the Power of the Elite, and the Corruption of Our Great Universities, The Champion (Sept. 2014)

  • From Robert Gates’s memoir: A positive business case for the FCPA?, FCPA Blog (Mar. 7, 2014)

  • Podcast: Avoiding FCPA prosecution: The valuable lessons the Ralph Lauren case teaches, recorded with the Association of Certified Financial Crime Specialists (July 30, 2013)

  • Reconsidering the Sixth Amendment and Jury Overrides, American Criminal Law Review Blog (Mar. 5, 2013) (co-author)

  • The FCPA and International Anti-Corruption Law, 2012 (co-author)

  • Actually, Trading on Congressional Information is Illegal, USA Today, Nov. 18, 2011 (Op-Ed.)

  • Reexamining the Sentencing Guidelines for Federal Securities Fraud Cases, 89 BNA Criminal Law Reporter 833, reprint 17 BNA World Securities Law Report 1 (2011) (co-author)

  • The “Chief” Problem with Reciprocal Discovery under Rule 16, The Champion, Sept. 2010 (co-author)

  • Kimbrough, White Collar Sentencing, and the New Primacy of the Sentencing Commission, 9 Criminal Litigation 1 (2009) (co-author)

  • Public (Self)-Service: Illegal Trading on Congressional Information, 2 Harvard Law & Policy Review 161 (2008) (Third Place: ASECA Securities Law Writing Competition)

  • Avoiding Tragedy in the Wiki-Commons, 12 Virginia Journal of Law and Technology 8 (2007)

  • We Had to Destroy the Country to Save It: On the Use of Partition to Restore Order During Occupation, Note, 48 Virginia Journal of International Law 187 (2007)

  • Rediscovering Dangerousness: The Expanded Scope of Reasonable Deadly Force after Scott v. Harris, Comment, 93 Virginia Law Review In Brief 129 (2007)

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