Andrew Wilson joined the firm in 2005. His practice encompasses both civil rights and commercial litigation. His experience in commercial litigation includes matters involving securities fraud, contract, antitrust, intellectual property, and merger litigation. His civil rights practice includes police misconduct, First Amendment litigation, domestic violence, employment discrimination, constitutional litigation, children’s rights, and political asylum.

Prior to joining Emery Celli, Mr. Wilson worked at Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP and clerked for the Hon. Harold A. Ackerman in the District of New Jersey. Mr. Wilson was a summer associate at Tory Tory DesLauriers & Binnington in Toronto, at the World Health Organization in Geneva, and at Profamilia Legal Services in Bogota. He also interned at the Center for Justice and International Law in Washington, D.C.

Education

University of Toronto, L.L.B., 2000; Faculty of Law Review, Senior Editor; Lang Michener Prize in Property Law; Niagara International Law Moot, Best Team Oral Argument; Grand Moot

Harvard University, B.A., magna cum laude, 1996; John Harvard Scholarship (for “academic work of highest distinction”); Bowdoin Prize for English Composition; Barbara Miller Solomon Prize for Senior Thesis

Admissions

U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit; U.S. District Court, Southern and Eastern Districts of New York; New York

Memberships

Association of the Bar of the City of New York, Pro Bono Society; American Bar Association; Canadian Human Rights Foundation, Director

Publications

"Protecting the Rights of Domestic Violence Victims in the Workplace," New York Law Journal, August 1, 2006 (with Ilaan Margalit Maazel)

Rebecca J. Cook, Bernard M. Dickens, O. Andrew F. Wilson, and Susan E. Scarrow, Advancing Safe Motherhood Through Human Rights, WHO: Working Document, 2001