Bio
Andy Love has been an appellate practitioner for nearly forty years. He is a partner at Robbins Geller Rudman & Dowd LLP’s San Francisco office where he is a member of the firm’s Appellate Practice Group. Andy concentrates on federal appeals involving securities fraud class actions. He has successfully briefed and argued many cases on behalf of defrauded investors and consumers in the Ninth Circuit and in other federal appellate courts around the country.
Before joining Robbins Geller, Andy was a death penalty defense lawyer. He represented inmates on California’s death row in habeas corpus proceedings and on direct appeal as a staff attorney at the California Appellate Project, in private practice, and then for a dozen years as a Supervising Deputy State Public Defender. Andy obtained relief for capital clients in both the California Supreme Court and the Ninth Circuit. Andy began his legal career as a staff attorney at the Legal Aid Foundation of Santa Barbara County.
Andy was a long-time co-chair of the Capital Case Defense Seminar, recognized as the largest conference for death penalty practitioners in the country. Additionally, he was on the faculty of the National Institute for Trial Advocacy’s Post-Conviction Skills Seminar. More recently, Andy served as a practitioner-advisor for U.C. Berkeley Law’s Appellate Advocacy Program.
Andy earned his Bachelor of Arts degree in Philosophy from the University of Vermont and his Juris Doctor degree from the University of San Francisco School of Law, where he graduated cum laude and was a member of the McAuliffe Honor Society.