T. Andrew Brown

T. Andrew Brown of Rochester, New York, is the founder and managing partner of Brown Hutchinson, LLP. He has had a long and distinguished career as an attorney. He is a recent past president of the New York State Bar Association, a 70 thousand member organization.

Brown formerly practiced as an associate with Nixon, Hargrave, Devans and Doyle (now Nixon Peabody) in the New York City and Rochester offices. He also formerly served as Rochester’s Corporation Counsel and Chief Legal Officer. Brown’s commercial and civil litigation practice expands almost four decades. His practice is statewide. His clientele is nationwide. He is also a mediator and an arbitrator on the commercial, employment and complex case panels of the American Arbitration Association. He is also a certified federal court mediator.

He has received many awards for his business and civic achievements, and is rated at the highest level for attorneys, AV-Preeminent, for both legal ability and ethics by Martindale-Hubbell. Brown is also a past president of the Monroe County Bar Association and the Rochester Black Bar Association. He is a past general counsel of the National Bar Association. He recently completed nine years on the New York State Board of Regents, the last five as Vice-Chancellor, setting statewide education policy and presiding over the University of the State of New York and the New York State Education Department. He has served on many other local, state and national boards and commissions. He has held adjunct faculty positions with the State University of New York. He recently completed a one-year Minett Professorship at Rochester Institute of Technology.

He is a current faculty member of the trial advocacy program at Harvard Law School. He has lectured on many legal topics over the years and has been a strong advocate for legal reform and against legal inequities and racial injustice. Brown earned his law degree from the University of Michigan Law School, and his undergraduate degree from Syracuse University.