Andrew R. Keats, Esq.

Andrew Keats is a Senior Attorney with Juvenile Law Center, currently focused on litigation and amicus advocacy to prevent young people from being tried as adults in the criminal legal system and preventing those who are tried as adults from receiving the state’s harshest punishments while being afforded a meaningful opportunity for release. Throughout his career at Juvenile Law Center, Andrew has consistently advocated for ending record-based discrimination through research, writing, and speaking engagements on the importance of confidentiality and expungement laws to protect youth with juvenile records. Andrew was also previously engaged in policy advocacy efforts to eliminate fines and fees from the juvenile legal system.

Before joining Juvenile Law Center Andrew was a litigation associate with Gibson, Dunn, & Crutcher LLP in Los Angeles and New York City, where he litigated a broad range of complex commercial disputes and has experience with securities, class action, bankruptcy, and real estate matters on behalf of individual and corporate clients in state and federal courts. While at Gibson Dunn Andrew maintained an active pro bono practice that included immigration asylum litigation and capital habeas work. Notably, Andrew spent over ten years in partnership with the Equal Justice Initiative representing former Alabama State Trooper, George Martin, in successfully overturning his 2000 conviction and death sentence for the death of his wife in 1995.

Andrew graduated Order of the Coif from the University of Southern California Gould School of Law where he was a member of the Southern California Law Review. He holds a B.A. in Political Science, with a focus on International Security, from Duke University. 

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