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Andrew P. Lee is a litigator and trial attorney with extensive experience representing plaintiffs in class and complex litigation.  His practice focuses on disability discrimination, wage-and-hour, and consumer class actions.

Andrew’s disability practice focuses on ensuring access to public facilities and infrastructure.  He recently served as co-lead trial counsel in the matter of Griffin v. City of Los Angeles, Case No. 24-cv-06312 (C.D. Cal.), a certified class action seeking systemic injunctive relief to make the City of Los Angeles’s vast park system accessible to persons with mobility disabilities.  He was class counsel in Willits v. City of Los Angeles, Case No. 10-cv-05782 (C.D. Cal.), which resulted in the largest-ever disability access class action settlement valued in excess of $1.4 billion.  Other disability access class actions litigated by Andrew include Nevarez v. Forty Niners Football Co., No. 16-cv-07013 (N.D. Cal.) (class action settlement requiring stadium-wide barrier removal and providing for $24 million damages fund—the largest-ever monetary settlement in a disability access class action against a place of public accommodation), Ochoa v. the City of Long Beach, Case No. 14-cv-04307 (C.D. Cal.) (class action settlement requiring curb ramp and sidewalk barrier removal valued at approximately $200 million), and Lashbrook v. City of San Jose, Case No. 20-cv-01236 (N.D. Cal) (class action settlement requiring curb ramp barrier removal valued at approximately $130 million).

Andrew also represents workers, consumers, and tenants, having secured tens of millions of dollars in wages and restitution during his career.  He served as trial counsel in the matter of Munguia-Brown v. Equity Residential, Case No. 16-cv-01225 (N.D. Cal.), which resulted in a finding of liability and an award of restitution of nearly $25 million on behalf of approximately 190,000 California tenants who were charged unlawful late fees.  More recently, he served as class counsel in the matter of Abarca v. Werner Enterprises, Case No. 14-cv-319 (D. Neb.)—a consolidated wage and hour class action on behalf of thousands of truck drivers—in which he obtained partial summary judgment on behalf of the plaintiffs and fended off the employer’s attempt to decertify the case as a class action.  Andrew was also plaintiff’s counsel in Adolph v. Uber Technologies, a precedent-setting case in which the California Supreme Court held that an employee may pursue representative claims on behalf of other aggrieved employees under the California Private Attorneys General Act regardless of whether the employee’s individual claims are subject to individual arbitration.

Andrew regularly speaks on employment, disability, and complex litigation topics.  He has served as a panelist at conferences organized by the American Bar Association, Federal Bar Association, California Lawyers Association, and the National Employment Lawyers Association, among others.  He is an author of the Wage and Hour Laws, A State-by-State Survey (Bloomberg BNA), serving as editor of the Special Litigation section of the California chapter since 2019.  Andrew was named a Northern California Rising Star from 2015 to 2017, and has been named a Northern California SuperLawyer each year since 2020.  He has also been recognized as one of Lawdragon’s 500 Leading Plaintiff Employment Lawyers each year since 2019.

Andrew is a 2006 graduate of University of California College of the Law, San Francisco, where he served as an editor of the UC Law Journal.

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