Andrea Levenson

Andrea Levenson handles complex civil litigation matters and trials, particularly those involving intellectual property issues. Her practice focuses on complex patent litigation before U.S. district courts, the International Trade Commission (ITC), and on appeal before the Federal Circuit. Andrea has stand-up jury trial, evidentiary hearing, and appellate argument experience in multiple forums, including United State District Courts, the International Trade Commission, and the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. She regularly represents clients involved a wide array of technologies including solid state memory, computer networking, mining technology, medical devices, underground asset mapping, and many more.

In addition, Andrea has litigated a variety of other commercial matters, including trademark infringement, copyright infringement, trade secret, and general commercial disputes in district courts throughout the country and on appeal.

As a member of multiple trial teams, Andrea is adept at all stages of litigation, including pre-litigation analysis, claim construction, infringement and validity analysis, fact and expert discovery, trial preparation and strategy, trial, and appeal. She has examined key witnesses at trial, argued substantive motions in court, and taken and defended numerous depositions, including fact and expert witnesses.

Andrea also maintains a robust pro bono practice, including civil rights/prisoner rights litigation in California and Louisiana, defense of unlawful detainer proceedings for indigent clients, and coordinating the office’s involvement in the federal pro se clinic for pro bono representation in the Central District of California.

Andrea earned her J.D., magna cum laude, from the University of California, Irvine School of Law. In law school, she received Pro Bono Graduation High Honors for her more than 200 hours of pro bono service representing clients in post-conviction relief matters. Andrea also represented a prisoner in a civil rights appeal before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, securing a complete reversal and remand of the District Court's order dismissing the civil rights action on every ground argued.