Founding Conviction
Andrew & Hopkins was founded on a deliberate idea: that the most consequential legal matters deserve the personal attention of experienced lawyers from beginning to end. The firm's founders had practiced at large institutional firms and observed, repeatedly, that as matters grew in complexity they tended to become more bureaucratic, less responsive, and more difficult to align with the actual commercial needs of the client.
They built Andrew & Hopkins as a different kind of firm — one where the lawyer the client first speaks to is the lawyer responsible for the work, where teams are sized to the matter rather than the billing rate, and where the firm's culture supports candor with clients and colleagues alike.
Growth Through Trust
The firm has grown by the standard that matters most in a service business: repeat engagement and considered referral. Our lawyers have followed clients through inflection points across decades of practice — from formative regulatory inquiries to bet-the-company litigation to transformative transactions. Many of the firm's current matters trace back to relationships built years before the firm itself existed in its current form.
An Integrated Practice
From the firm's earliest days, we have organized our practice to reflect how legal questions actually arise in our clients' work. A regulatory inquiry can become parallel civil litigation in a matter of days. A planned transaction can require simultaneous tax, antitrust, and employment analysis. We resolved early that our litigation, regulatory, transactional, and Government Affairs practices would work as one firm rather than as separate silos — and that conviction continues to shape how we recruit and how we staff matters today.
Where We Are Today
Today, Andrew & Hopkins maintains offices in Washington, D.C., New York, Boston, and London, with active engagements spanning North America and Europe. We counsel a roster of corporate and institutional clients on the matters that most directly determine commercial outcome: complex litigation, government and regulatory enforcement, financial crimes compliance, Government Affairs, and integrated transactional counsel.
The firm has grown, but the conviction remains the same. Significant matters deserve experienced lawyers, personal accountability, and the willingness to give candid counsel even when that counsel is hard to hear.