Andrew Freeman
USA Guide 2024
Band 2 : Litigation: General Commercial
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About
Provided by Andrew Freeman
Practice Areas
Appeals
Child Sexual Abuse
Civil Rights
Disability Rights
Housing Discrimination
LGBTQ+ Rights
Wrongful Convictions & Police Misconduct
Class Actions
Commercial Litigation
Employment
Randolph-Sheppard Act
Wage & Hour Violations
Million-Dollar Cases
Personal Injury/Wrongful Death
Career
Andy Freeman obtains justice for his clients. He has won numerous verdicts, judgments, and settlements of millions, tens of millions, and in one case over a billion dollars by mastering the relevant law and getting to know his clients, their problems, and the evidence in their cases.
Other lawyers bring Andy cases that present complicated combinations of law and facts or that require making new law. After finding witnesses the defendant had failed to disclose, Andy won $7 million at trial for a mother whose toddler had been killed by a pit bull; and he collected all of it after convincing Maryland’s highest court that a landlord with knowledge and control of a tenant’s dangerous pet should be held responsible for the pet’s attacks on visitors. After a California lawyer told University of California students that they could not challenge tuition increases, Andy won them over $40 million and then won a second group of students over $49 million. He convinced a federal court that Maryland’s tax sale laws requiring notice to landlords and their lenders – but not their tenants – violated the tenants’ rights and won a substantial verdict for two wrongfully evicted tenants.
Juries trust Andy. When he asked a jury to fully compensate a Black school superintendent whose contract had not been renewed because of his race, the jury awarded every penny he was owed (over $500,000, plus fees) and recommended that a school be named in his honor.
Judges respect Andy. One federal judge appointed him to represent prisoners in a collective action over second-hand tobacco smoke (a case that resulted in compensation for the clients and the banning of tobacco from Maryland’s prisons), another asked him to serve on the U.S. District Court’s task force regarding electronic discovery, and that court’s chief judge asked him to serve on the bench-bar subcommittee on attorneys’ fees.
A client, the national president of a 25,000-member organization, wrote Andy after a successful hearing, “Selecting Brown, Goldstein & Levy was the best presidential decision I have ever made!”
His peers chose Andy as the Maryland Trial Lawyer of the Year.
Chambers Review
USA
Andrew Freeman is well regarded in the market for his representation of plaintiffs in civil cases arising out of personal injury and wrongful death claims. He also has notable expertise in class actions.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"Andy is an excellent litigator who develops a grasp of issues and executes a direct line of questioning to support and move forward with the advocacy for his client."
"Andy is an excellent litigator who develops a grasp of issues and executes a direct line of questioning to support and move forward with the advocacy for his client."
Articles, highlights and press releases
2 items provided by Brown, Goldstein & Levy LLP
BGL fights for justice for family of lawyer who fell to his death at D.C. metro station in lawsuit.
Andy Freeman, Kobie Flowers, Lauren DiMartino, and Michael Abrams are continuing to fight for justice on behalf of the parents and estate of Okiemute Whiteru, a lawyer who suffered an accidental injury in 2013 in the Washington D.C. Judiciary Square metro station and subsequently died.
Andy Freeman quoted by Baltimore Sun on impact of Archdiocese of Baltimore filing for bankruptcy.
Partner Andy Freeman was quoted in a recent article by The Baltimore Sun, in which he discussed the impact on child sexual abuse survivors, should the Archdiocese of Baltimore file for bankruptcy ahead of Maryland’s new Child Victims Act being enacted.
BGL fights for justice for family of lawyer who fell to his death at D.C. metro station in lawsuit.
Andy Freeman, Kobie Flowers, Lauren DiMartino, and Michael Abrams are continuing to fight for justice on behalf of the parents and estate of Okiemute Whiteru, a lawyer who suffered an accidental injury in 2013 in the Washington D.C. Judiciary Square metro station and subsequently died.
Andy Freeman quoted by Baltimore Sun on impact of Archdiocese of Baltimore filing for bankruptcy.
Partner Andy Freeman was quoted in a recent article by The Baltimore Sun, in which he discussed the impact on child sexual abuse survivors, should the Archdiocese of Baltimore file for bankruptcy ahead of Maryland’s new Child Victims Act being enacted.