Andrew Schpak

Practice Areas

Andrew Schpak is the Co-Managing Partner at Barran Liebman and has been exclusively representing management in employment litigation, providing advice in employment matters, and performing independent investigations for over nineteen years. He works with prominent Oregon companies, government entities, and non-profits, navigating complex employment laws and crafting strategies and solutions for their success. Andrew drafts and updates workplace policies and employee handbooks, provides workplace training, and advises clients on employment issues when they arise. He also drafts, reviews, and negotiates employment, partnership, and independent contractor agreements, as well as confidentiality, non-solicitation, and non-competition agreements. Andrew spends the majority of his time representing clients in state and federal court proceedings and before state and federal administrative agencies.

Professional Memberships

Actively involved with the American Bar Association (ABA), Andrew serves on the Standing Committee on Scope and Correlation of Work (SCOPE) and the Standing Committee on Audit. He is also a member of the Council of the ABA Fund for Justice and Education and the Judicial Lawyers Conference Executive Committee. He serves as a Delegate-at-Large to the ABA House of Delegates.

Outside of ABA involvement, Andrew currently serves as a Board Member of the Portland Metro Chamber and is a graduate of Leadership Portland and a Past Chair of the Leadership Portland Alumni Association. He is also a Life Fellow of the American Bar Foundation and Chair of the Oregon Chapter of the Fellows. Andrew previously served as a member of the ABA Board of Governors, President of the Multnomah Bar Association (MBA), and led both the ABA Young Lawyers Division (YLD) and the MBA Young Lawyers Section. Having supported the Campaign for Equal Justice ever since he started practicing law, he now serves as Treasurer of its Board of Directors, as Chair of its Finance Committee, and as Co-Chair to the Large Firm Partners Committee.

Andrew has a passion for helping those who are houseless and trying to find stability. As Chair of the ABA YLD, he developed and implemented “Project Street Youth: Young Lawyers Advocating for Homeless Youth,” which provided young lawyers across the country with the education and materials they needed to set up free legal aid clinics in their respective cities. Andrew now serves as Chair of the Board of Transition Projects, Inc., which provides an outlet for him to help people transition from homelessness to housing. He also serves as a member of the Board’s Executive, Governance, and Development Committees.

Andrew graduated from Reed College and received his J.D. from Cornell Law School. He is admitted to practice in Oregon and Washington state and federal courts and is certified as a Senior Professional in Human Resources (SPHR) by the Human Resources Certification Institute (HRCI) and as a Senior Certified Professional (SCP) by the Society for Human Resources Management.