
meet our attorneys
andy vickery

education
University of Georgia School of Law, Athens, Georgia
Doctorate of Jurisprudence – 1972
Honors: Class Rank Top 10%
Law Review: Georgia Law Review, Articles Editor
Yale College, New Haven, Connecticut
Bachelor of Business Administration –
1969 Major: American Studies
past employment positions
United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Law Clerk to Chief Judge John R. Brown, 1972 – 1973
Stationed at the Pentagon as Assistant to the General Counsel of the Army , 1973 – 1976
Fulbright & Jaworski, Litigation Associate, 1976 – 1978
Private Practice, 1978 – present
about andy
“I am proud to be a trial lawyer. For the majority of my career in Texas, I have had the honor and privilege of representing families who have lost a loved one, people who have been injured, and small business owners who have been victimized by predatory competitors.”
In the summer of 2002, I spent 22 days in TRIAL LAWYERS’ COLLEGE at Gerry Spence’s ranch in Dubois, Wyoming. Gerry, my second mentor in 30 years of law practice, re-emphasized three basic tenets that I try to follow in my law practice: (1) Listen to your client with both your ears and all of your heart, (2) Tell their story – passionately but honestly; and then (3) completely trust the jury to do the right thing. After graduating from Trial Lawyers College, I have now served for several years on the Faculty of the College.
Jury verdicts change society. I am proud to say that I have been involved in several jury verdicts that I like to think are quite significant in the world of pharmaceutical litigation. One of which is Tobin vs. SmithKline – On June 6, 2001, a Wyoming jury found in favor of the plaintiff with a liability verdict against SmithKline. This was an important verdict returned against a pharmaceutical company in a trial about adverse behavioral effects of a physchotropic drug. In 2004, the FDA mandated black box warnings about the risk of antidepressant-induced suicidality, which SmithKline had denied, but which we proved to exist in the Tobin case.
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