Andrew Davis

Andrew Davis

Partner, Lehotsky Keller Cohn LLP

Andrew Davis has extensive experience litigating and advising on high-stakes and nationally recognized matters. He has served as lead counsel in over 20 cases in state and federal courts, including the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit and the Texas Supreme Court, has counseled trial teams, and has tried a bench-trial to verdict.

Before joining Lehotsky Keller Cohn LLP, Mr. Davis most recently served as Chief Counsel to Senator Ted Cruz on the Senate Judiciary Committee. In that capacity, Mr. Davis advised the Senator on many of the most important and difficult legal and public policy issues in the country, including the limits on Congressional, Presidential, and agency authority. He also worked closely with outside counsel to lead amicus curiae briefs before the Supreme Court of the United States and advised the Senator on judicial selection.

Prior to serving Senator Cruz, Mr. Davis served as an Assistant Solicitor General in the Office of the Attorney General of Texas. As an Assistant Solicitor General, Mr. Davis both defended Texas and its agencies in appeals across the state and challenged local ordinances that harmed Texas businesses. For example, he successfully defended Texas's redistricting plan at the Supreme Court of the United States, and persuaded an Austin-based appellate court that an Austin ordinance was preempted by the Texas Minimum Wage Act.

Mr. Davis previously practiced law as a trial and appellate litigator at Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP in Washington D.C., where he represented clients across different industry sectors.

After graduating from Columbia Law School, Mr. Davis served as a judicial clerk for Judge Reena Raggi of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and Judge Sidney Fitzwater of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas. Before law school, Mr. Davis was a strategy business consultant with Accenture, where he advised power utility companies.

 
 

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