Biography
Andrew Pincus is a partner in Mayer Brown LLP resident in Washington, D.C. He is a co-leader of Mayer Brown’s Supreme Court and appellate practice.
Andy has argued 30 cases in the Supreme Court of the United States and filed briefs in hundreds of Supreme Court cases. He also litigates frequently before federal and state appellate courts and federal district courts.
Chief Justice John G. Roberts, Jr. appointed Andy to a three-year term as one of four practitioner members of the Standing Committee on Rules of Practice and Procedure of the Judicial Conference of the United States, effective October 1, 2022. That Committee drafts and recommends to the Judicial Conference new rules of practice, procedure, and evidence governing appellate, bankruptcy, civil, and criminal cases in the federal courts.
A former Assistant to the Solicitor General in the United States Department of Justice (1984-1988), Andy co-founded and served as co-director of the Yale Law School’s Supreme Court Advocacy Clinic (2006-2023), which provides pro bono representation in 10-15 Supreme Court cases each year.
While serving as General Counsel of the United States Department of Commerce (1997-2000), Andy had principal responsibility for the Digital Millennium Copyright Act and the Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act. He also participated in formulation of policy concerning intellectual property protection, privacy, domain name management, taxation of electronic commerce, export controls, international trade, and consumer protection.
Andy is a graduate of Yale College and Columbia Law School, where he was a Notes & Comments Editor of the Columbia Law Review. He was a law clerk to the Honorable Harold H. Greene, United States District Court for the District of Columbia, in 1981-1982.
