About
Andrew Chirls has attempted a wide type of enterprise and tort cases. A graduate of the University of California (Boalt Hall) School of Law, he served as a clerk for the U.S. District Court in New Jersey for a year after which spent 25 years litigating at Wolf, Block, Schorr & Solis-Cohen, where he changed into a associate from 1989 to 2009. He became Chancellor of the Philadelphia Bar Association in 2005.
Class moves and mass torts: Mr. Chirls is thought for his practice in class actions and multi-district litigation, each as an advise and a neutral. He become appointed in 2013 by means of the United States District Court in Philadelphia to supervise and remedy discovery disputes within the Zoloft Birth Defects national multi-district litigation. He serves through appointment of the Court as Common Benefit Fund Administrator inside the Avandia multi-district litigation. Mr. Chirls has been magnificence recommend in some of securities cases, and represented the AHP Settlement Trust, which administered a $four.three billion class agreement from the marketing of the weight loss program drug Fen Phen.
Business litigation: Mr. Chirls has additionally attempted agreement cases springing up from mergers, acquisitions and dissolutions. He is diagnosed as an authority in the discipline of assets rights and condemnation law, concerning the constitutional rights of belongings owners when governments and application agencies take property for public projects.
Lawyer field: Mr. Chirls represents and consults with attorneys on legal professional discipline and professional ethics subjects.
Torts: He was the first attorney to represent a plaintiff in an AIDS/HIV discrimination case before a jury in Pennsylvania, and became lead protection suggest in a class motion related to exposure to poisonous metals at a dialysis sanatorium.
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- Litigation
- Commercial Litigation/Business Disputes
- Alternative Dispute Resolution
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Languages
- English: Spoken, Written
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Experience
- Lawyer
Fineman Krekstein & Harris
2009 - Partner
Wolf, Block, Schorr & Solis-Cohen
1989 - Chancellor
Philadelphia Bar Association
2005 - Clerk
U.S. District Court in New Jersey
1988
Educations

Graduation year: 1981

Graduation year: 1977