About Andrew Bender

Andrew has experience in a wide variety of matters, ranging from insurance and healthcare disputes to civil rights and product liability actions. His practice revolves around civil litigation, with a focus on the preparation of briefing and the presentation of oral argument on appeal, as well as motion practice and jury charges at trial. At the appellate level, Andrew has represented clients in the United States Supreme Court; the United States Courts of Appeals for the Fifth and Eleventh Circuits; the Supreme Court of Texas; and the First, Second, Seventh, Eighth, Ninth, Twelfth, Thirteenth, and Fourteenth Courts of Appeals of Texas. He is Board Certified in Civil Appellate Law and has been selected as a Texas Super Lawyers “Rising Star” in appellate law for 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, and 2021. Andrew has achieved success for his clients at the trial level as well. For example, he helped one prominent Texas law firm secure the highest premises-liability verdict in Texas in 2018.

During law school, Andrew was a varsity oral advocate and brief writer for South Texas College of Law’s nationally acclaimed advocacy program, where he helped claim the program’s 108th and 110th national advocacy championships. He interned for Chief Justice Sherry Radack and Justice Jane Bland of the First Court of Appeals of Texas, and was selected to the Order of Barristers and the National Order of Scribes. In his final year of law school, Andrew was awarded the Scribes Brief-Writing Award for authoring the best moot court brief in the nation. Remarkably, he also authored the second best brief, becoming the only person in the writing competition’s history to win both first and second place. Andrew continues to be involved with South Texas College of Law as an adjunct professor of appellate advocacy, working with students each semester to prepare them for competition in national tournaments.