About Andrew N. Faes

Active member of the Missouri Bar Association and Kansas City Metropolitan Bar Association Assisted the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency with electronic discovery on a class-action employment discrimination lawsuit, as well as on discovery and FOIA issues on CERCLA cases. Andy Faes devotes his practice entirely to civil litigation, with an emphasis on complex pharmaceutical and medical device actions. For the past few years, Andy has focused on electronic discovery matters and case management, providing practical and efficient discovery management solutions in a wide variety of cases. These include everything from individual personal injury cases involving a single client with productions consisting of only several hundred pages, to complex cases involving thousands of clients with multimillion-page document collections.

His practice includes counseling others on electronic discovery processes, vendors, products, procedures, and analytics that will produce results for his clients. In addition, he is experienced in addressing confidentiality and privilege claims to company documents and is well-versed in both challenging and defending those claims. Upon graduation from law school, Andy joined a small general practice firm in Kansas City where he assisted clients with a wide variety of issues including landlord/tenant disputes, employment discrimination, estate administration, domestic cases, and minor criminal offenses.

Later, he joined the Kansas City firm of Shook, Hardy & Bacon, where he focused his practice in the area of products liability defense. Before joining Wagstaff & Cartmell in 2009, Andy was hired by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to assist with electronic discovery on a class-action employment discrimination lawsuit and stayed on to assist the agency with discovery and FOIA issues on CERCLA cases. Andy has been an active member of the American Association for Justice since he represented his class at AAJ’s annual trial competition as a me

Proven verdicts and settlements at Wagstaff & Cartmell

These results are credited to Wagstaff & Cartmell. A result appears under an attorney's own name only when a published source names them as counsel on the case.

San Francisco Unified School District's case was the first JUUL bellwether trial against Altria; after the plaintiffs rested, Altria agreed to pay $235 million to resolve roughly 6,000 pending e-vapor claims nationwide.

U.S. District Court, Northern District of California (MDL No. 2913) · 2023Product LiabilityRead the full story →
$20 millionVerdictTop 20 in Indiana · #12

A federal jury in Hammond, Indiana found that Ethicon's Prolift transvaginal mesh was defectively designed and inadequately warned against, awarding Barbara and Anton Kaiser $35 million. A judge reduced the punitive damages, leaving a $20 million verdict that the Seventh Circuit affirmed in full in 2020.

U.S. District Court, N.D. Indiana, No. 2:17-cv-114 · 2018Product LiabilityRead the full story →

Kathryn Gant died at the scene of a head-on crash on K-58 in Kansas on June 10, 2011, after a driver crossed the center line in a no-passing zone. Her husband sued the driver, the driver's parents and the family oil company. After a five-day bench trial in June 2015, a Coffey County judge found all of them liable and awarded $6,723,021. Under a pretrial agreement, none of the judgment could be collected from the defendants themselves.

Coffey County District Court, Kansas · 2015Wrongful DeathRead the full story →
$6 millionVerdict

A Los Angeles jury found Meta and Google's YouTube negligent in designing platforms that harmed a young woman identified as K.G.M., who began watching YouTube at age 6 and joined Instagram at 9. On March 25, 2026, it awarded $3 million in compensatory damages, split 70 percent to Meta and 30 percent to YouTube, plus $3 million in punitive damages. It was the first bellwether trial in the coordinated California social media addiction cases.

Superior Court of California, Los Angeles County (JCCP 5255, Judge Carolyn Kuhl) · 2026Product LiabilityRead the full story →
$5.7 millionVerdict

A Kern County jury handed Coleen Perry a $5.7 million verdict against Johnson & Johnson's Ethicon unit on March 5, 2015, in the first trial ever to reach a jury over Ethicon's TVT-Abbrevo polypropylene mesh sling.

Superior Court of California, Kern County · 2015Product LiabilityRead the full story →

Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.

Practice areas

Education

University of Missouri - Kansas City School of Law
J.D.
Western Illinois University
Undergraduate

Bar admissions & credentials

State Bar of Missouri

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Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.