Andrew J. Lorin

Andrew Lorin is a trial lawyer and a partner of the New York office of Hecht Partners LLP. Andrew has broad litigation experience as a partner at two AmLaw 75 law firms, as a prosecutor for the New York State Attorney General, and as General Counsel of two insurance litigation organizations. He has litigated cases in state and federal courts across the United States – including in Arkansas, California, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Massachusetts, Michigan, Nevada, New Jersey, New York (where he is admitted), North Carolina, Louisiana, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania (where he is admitted), Rhode Island, Texas, Washington State, Washington, D.C., and Wisconsin – and in foreign jurisdictions, such as France and the U.K. He also regularly represents clients in appellate matters, arbitrations, and mediations, as well as in administrative and regulatory proceedings.

Andrew represents clients in complex commercial cases, including contract disputes, securities matters, business tort cases, antitrust and unfair competition matters, IP disputes, insurance litigation, real estate and construction disputes, and bankruptcy litigation.

He was the lead attorney for Lincoln National Life Insurance Company in a pair of prominent cases involving a dispute between Lincoln and T. Boone Pickens regarding a $240 million insurance program. Lincoln was awarded summary judgment, as affirmed by the Fifth Circuit, as well as full costs. Andrew also first-chaired the damages portion of $500 million software trial before the International Court of Arbitration in Paris. The matter was favorably settled after trial and prior to decision.

Andrew is a graduate of Brown University, where he was a double major in English and biology was editor of Spectrum Political-Economic Journal and a member of Sigma Xi, the National Science Honors Society. Andrew graduated from New York University School of Law, where he was a member of the Moot Court Board and won the American Jurisprudence Prize in International Litigation. In furtherance of his representations of clients running internal investigations and defending against external investigations, Andrew studied investigative journalism at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, receiving a Masters of Science in 2007.