Andrew Tutt
About Andrew Tutt
Andrew Tutt co-chairs TL4J’s Nationwide Appellate & Supreme Court Practice. He is an accomplished Supreme Court and appellate advocate with a record of victories shaping civil rights enforcement, servicemember and veterans’ protections, appellate procedure, federal pleading standards, constitutional rights, and access to the courts.
Andrew has been recognized by Chambers USA in Nationwide Appellate Law, where clients praised his “extraordinary strategic instincts.” He has also been named a Rising Star in appellate litigation by The Legal 500, a Leading Litigator in America for Appellate and Supreme Court work by Lawdragon, an Appellate Rising Star by Law360, a D.C. Rising Star and Litigation Trailblazer by The National Law Journal, a Pro Bono Innovator by Bloomberg Law, a Young Lawyer of the Year, Litigation honoree by The American Lawyer Industry Awards, and a Best Lawyers honoree in Appellate Practice.
Andrew has won major cases before the United States Supreme Court and has led appeals in every federal court of appeals. His Supreme Court victories have protected civil rights remedies, expanded legal protections for servicemembers and veterans, clarified rules for preserving issues on appeal, and reinforced federal pleading standards that affect access to federal court.
His appellate victories span the First Amendment, federal grant funding, prisoner and detainee rights, state sovereign immunity, administrative law, intellectual property, and complex federal statutes. He has also established First Amendment protections for filming and livestreaming police officers in the Fourth and Tenth Circuits, helping secure the right across large regions of the eastern and western United States. In a recent actual innocence case, his work led the Department of Justice to announce a nationwide policy protecting access to the courts for people asserting actual innocence.
Andrew represents clients before the Supreme Court, federal courts of appeals, state appellate courts, and trial courts. He also works closely with trial teams on dispositive motions, extraordinary writs, issue preservation, post-trial motions, and verdict defense.
Before joining TL4J, Andrew was Counsel in Arnold & Porter’s Appellate & Supreme Court practice. He previously served in the Office of Legal Counsel at the U.S. Department of Justice and clerked for Judge Cornelia T.L. Pillard on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit.
Andrew earned his J.D. from Yale Law School and his B.S. from Duke University, where he triple-majored in Biomedical Engineering, Economics, and Mathematics.
Proven verdicts and settlements at Trial Lawyers for Justice
These results are credited to Trial Lawyers for Justice. A result appears under an attorney's own name only when a published source names them as counsel on the case.
Carrie DeJongh, 40, of Hull, Iowa, died on June 9, 2015 after receiving iodinated contrast dye for a CT scan at Sioux Center Health, when the physician treating her gave her an antihistamine but did not immediately check her vital signs or give epinephrine. Her family sued Sioux Center Health and Dr. Roy T. Slice for negligence, and both defendants denied the allegations. A Sioux County jury in Orange City returned a $29.5 million verdict on June 13, 2018, covering DeJongh's pain and suffering before her death and loss of consortium for her husband and four children. No appeal, remittitur or reduction has turned up since.
In February 2017, a physician assistant at a UnityPoint urgent care clinic in Des Moines diagnosed Joseph Dudley with the flu despite a negative flu test, sent him home on Tamiflu, and never ordered a complete blood count. Two days later Dudley was hospitalized with bacterial meningitis caused by an undetected heart valve infection, spent eight days in a medically induced coma, and suffered a series of strokes that left him with permanent brain damage, hearing loss, vertigo and nerve damage. A Polk County jury tried the malpractice claim against physician assistant Melanie Choos and Central Iowa Hospital Corp, doing business as UnityPoint Clinic, over a week in November 2022 and returned a $27,000,000 verdict, all of it noneconomic damages. The defense moved for a new trial afterward and UnityPoint said it was weighing an appeal.
Richard J. Pellock, 80, had surgery to remove bladder cancer at UnityPoint Health Finley Hospital in Dubuque, Iowa in January 2015, and the operation succeeded. Days later he needed a second procedure for a post-surgical complication, and the nurse anesthetist handling that procedure induced anesthesia without first emptying his stomach despite signs he had a full one. Pellock aspirated, developed aspiration pneumonia and respiratory failure, and died. His widow and son sued the anesthesia group and a Dubuque County jury returned a $10 million verdict against it in September 2017, awarded entirely as loss-of-consortium damages. Defense lawyers were reported as saying they would challenge the verdict, but no Iowa appellate decision in the case has ever been published.
Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.
