Andy Freeman
Andy Freeman obtains justice for his clients. He has won numerous verdicts, judgments, and settlements of millions, tens of millions, and in one case over a billion dollars by mastering the relevant law and getting to know his clients, their problems, and the evidence in their cases.
Other lawyers bring Andy cases that present complicated combinations of law and facts or that require making new law. After finding witnesses the defendant had failed to disclose, Andy won $7 million at trial for a mother whose toddler had been killed by a pit bull; and he collected all of it after convincing Maryland’s highest court that a landlord with knowledge and control of a tenant’s dangerous pet should be held responsible for the pet’s attacks on visitors. After a California lawyer told University of California students that they could not challenge tuition increases, Andy won them over $40 million and then won a second group of students over $49 million. He convinced a federal court that Maryland’s tax sale laws requiring notice to landlords and their lenders – but not their tenants – violated the tenants’ rights and won a substantial verdict for two wrongfully evicted tenants.
Juries trust Andy. When he asked a jury to fully compensate a Black school superintendent whose contract had not been renewed because of his race, the jury awarded every penny he was owed (over $500,000, plus fees) and recommended that a school be named in his honor.
Judges respect Andy. One federal judge appointed him to represent prisoners in a collective action over second-hand tobacco smoke (a case that resulted in compensation for the clients and the banning of tobacco from Maryland’s prisons), another asked him to serve on the U.S. District Court’s task force regarding electronic discovery, and that court’s chief judge asked him to serve on the bench-bar subcommittee on attorneys’ fees.
A client, the national president of a 25,000-member organization, wrote Andy after a successful hearing, “Selecting Brown, Goldstein & Levy was the best presidential decision I have ever made!”
His peers chose Andy as the Maryland Trial Lawyer of the Year.
- Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers, 2014–present
- Recognized by Chambers USA for Litigation: General Commercial in Maryland, 2020–present
- Maryland Trial Lawyer of the Year, 2000
- Lawdragon 500 Leading Lawyers in America, 2021, 2022, & 2023
- Lawdragon 500 Leading Litigators in America, 2023
- Lawdragon 500 Leading Plaintiff Employment and Civil Rights Lawyers, 2021 & 2022
- Lawdragon 500 Leading Plaintiff Employment Lawyers, 2018, 2019, & 2020
- Best Lawyers’ Baltimore Lawyer of the Year, Bet-the-Company Litigation, 2023
- Best Lawyers’ Baltimore Lawyer of the Year, Litigation – Labor and Employment, 2022
- Best Lawyers’ Baltimore Lawyer of the Year, Personal Injury Litigation – Plaintiffs, 2020
- Best Lawyers’ Baltimore Lawyer of the Year, Mass Tort Litigation/Class Actions – Plaintiffs, 2014 & 2019
- Best Lawyers’ Baltimore Lawyer of the Year, Employment Law – Individuals, 2018
- The Best Lawyers in America Appellate Practice, Bet-the-Company Litigation, Civil Rights Law, Commercial Litigation, Employment Law (Individuals), Litigation (Labor and Employment), Mass Tort Litigation/Class Actions (Plaintiffs), and Personal Injury Litigation (Plaintiffs), 2012–present
- Top 100 Maryland Super Lawyers, 2018 and 2023
- Maryland Super Lawyer, 2007–present
- Robert M. Bell Award for Leadership in Public Service from the University of Baltimore Students for Public Interest, 2010
- Champion of Justice Award of The Legal Aid Bureau, 2009
- Leadership in Law Award 2006, the Daily Record
- Wasserstein Fellow, Harvard Law School, 2006–07 (sponsored by Office of Public Interest Advising)
- Top Defense Wins of 2000 (nationwide), the National Law Journal
- Huntington S. Williams Award of the Coalition to End Childhood Lead Poisoning, 1998
- “Outstanding Achievement Award in the Field of Fair Housing” from the Washington Lawyer’s Committee for Civil Rights and Urban Affairs, 1994
- Sampson Green Award of the Maryland Food Committee for “outstanding efforts to bring the National School Breakfast Program to Baltimore County,” 1992
- “Most Energetic Foster Parent” Award of the Baltimore City Department of Social Services, 1990
Baltimore, Maryland 21202
