Andrew H. Marks is a partner in both the firm's Commercial Litigation Group and Insurance/Reinsurance Group and co-chairs Crowell & Moring's E-Discovery Team. He is resident in the Washington, D.C. office and is a member of the District of Columbia, Maryland, and Florida bars.

Mr. Marks has a broad-based commercial litigation and arbitration practice. Among the wide range of contract and business tort matters he has handled in recent years are business fraud, fiduciary duty, corporate governance, defamation, foreign investment, commercial real estate, and insurance coverage cases. He also has considerable experience with disputes involving law firms and departed/departing partners. Mr. Marks regularly handles matters at both the trial and appellate levels in federal as well as state courts throughout the country. In addition, he has extensive experience, both as a neutral and as counsel, in both arbitration and mediation proceedings. Mr. Marks was selected by his peers to be included in The Best Lawyers In America 2008 as a "Best Lawyer" in the practice areas of commercial litigation and First Amendment law.

Mr. Marks is a past president of the District of Columbia Bar, the nation's second largest state bar association, and is immediate past president of the District of Columbia Bar Foundation. He is a former General Counsel to the Bar and served two terms on the Bar's Board of Governors. Mr. Marks has been a regular member of the Judicial Conference of the District of Columbia Circuit and is presently the Chair of the D.C. Chapter of the Fellows of the American Bar Foundation. He is also a member of the District of Columbia Access to Justice Commission and is on the board of the D.C. Circuit Historical Society. Mr. Marks is a former Co-Chair of the D.C. Bar's Task Force on Civility in the Profession and is a frequent speaker on professionalism issues.

In 2005, Mr. Marks received the Judge Learned Hand Award from the American Jewish Committee in recognition of his "dedication to the highest principles of the legal profession and his outstanding contributions to the enrichment of our community." He was also awarded the 2005 Servant of Justice Award by the Legal Aid Society of the District of Columbia.

Mr. Marks is a 1973 cum laude graduate of Harvard College and a 1976 magna cum laude graduate of the University of Michigan Law School. At Michigan, he was a member of the Order of the Coif and an Associate Editor and then the Managing Editor of the Michigan Law Review. Following graduation from Michigan, Mr. Marks clerked on the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia for the Honorable Charles R. Richey. Between 1979 and 1981, he served as Executive Assistant to Ambassador Sol M. Linowitz, the President's Personal Representative to the Middle East Peace Negotiations.

Education
Harvard University, A.B., 1973 - cum laude
University of Michigan Law School, J.D., 1976 - magna cum laude

Affiliations
Admitted to practice: District of Columbia, Maryland, Florida

Publications
"District of Columbia," Business Torts: A Fifty-State Guide, Aspen (2006). Co-Authors: David M. Schnorrenberg, Andrew H. Marks, and David K. Osei.

"Remedies in Business Torts Litigation," Business Torts Litigation, 2nd ed., ABA (2005). Co-Authors: Andrew H. Marks and John L. Murino.