Andrew L. Hoffman

Andrew Hoffman currently works as an attorney at his own firm, the Law Office of Andrew L. Hoffman, P.C.). Hoffman works primarily on false arrest and related civil rights litigation.

Prior to that, he worked as an attorney/policy analyst for the consumer advocacy organization, the Center for Justice & Democracy. There, he researched, wrote, edited, and published written and online materials, opinion-editorials, letters to the editor, and the ABA Journal award-winning blog, ThePopTort.

As an attorney at the Law Offices of Mark Sherman, LLC, Hoffman performed a wide variety of complex tasks, which included extensive research and motion writing in both civil and criminal matters.

Hoffman also spent time at Housing Works, the largest community-based AIDS service organization in the United States and the nation’s leading providers of legal services to indigent individuals living with HIV and AIDS. Additionally, he proudly served former New York City Councilman Simcha Felder, providing extensive legal analysis of municipal policies and helping to draft related legislation.

While in law school, he served as summer associate at the plaintiff-side employment firm, Schwartz & Perry, LLP, and spent a year working for Fox News Legal Analyst and author, Lis Wiehl, researching and drafting many of her weekly online columns (“Lis on Law”) on , as well as portions of her book on feminist themes, The 51% Minority. 

Hoffman is a graduate of New York Law School (J.D.), University of Wisconsin (M.F.A.) and Central Washington University (B.A.). He was admitted to the New York State Bar in 2008.  He is currently Of Counsel at the Blanch Law Firm, P.C., and Summers & Schneider, P.C.