Andrew Garner Phillips

• Extensive class action defense experience, including defeating class certification on behalf of ExxonMobil Corporation in two putative class actions and working on ConAgra’s national product labeling class action defense team.
• Argued and won a case before the Georgia Supreme Court on behalf of a large financial institution. The court unanimously reversed a Georgia Court of Appeals opinion that threatened to greatly expand litigation by defaulted borrowers against banks and other lenders.
• Tried and won a jury trial on behalf of a large automotive manufacturer in a serious product liability lawsuit. After three weeks of evidence, including multiple fact and expert witnesses on both sides, the 12-person jury returned a defense verdict.

Drew Phillips is a commercial litigator whose practice focuses on defending clients in class actions and multidistrict litigation. His Fortune 500 clients come to him for defense and counsel on a wide range of issues, from product recalls in the food and beverage and manufacturing industries to putative class action litigation in a variety of contexts. Drew has extensive courtroom experience, ranging from dispositive motions hearings, class certification hearings, bench trials, and lengthy product liability lawsuits. He is recognized as a leading attorney by The Best Lawyers in America^® for Food and Beverage Law.

Before joining the firm, Drew was lead in-house litigation counsel for a large automotive aftermarket retailer, where he was directly responsible for an extensive and diverse litigation docket. 

During law school, Drew was selected as a Burks Scholar, a position teaching legal research and writing to first year law students.

Bar Admissions

• Georgia

Education

• Washington and Lee University (J.D., 2003)
• University of North Alabama (B.S., 1999)

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