About HLA

Andrew Kirtley

Litigation Director (he/him)

Andrew has spent his legal career helping consumers, small businesses, and others vindicate their legal rights in court, including in class actions and other complex litigation. Over his career, he has represented hundreds of clients in all phases of litigation, including as the lead attorney on dispositive motions, trials, and appeals.

Before joining HLA in 2026, Andrew was a member of the California Access to Justice Commission and a partner in the San Francisco Bay Area office of the national plaintiff firm Cotchett Pitre & McCarthy, where he specialized in federal consumer class actions and socially just commercial and constitutional litigation. His accomplishments have included a $500 million win for small farmers, a California Lawyer Attorney of the Year (CLAY) award, and defeating constitutional challenges to a first-of-its-kind firearms regulation. Prior to that, Andrew practiced in the District of Columbia at the D.C. Tenants’ Rights Center, the D.C. Bar Pro Bono Center, and a boutique law firm specializing in federal civil rights. During law school, he did externships with a federal judge in the Southern District of New York (New York, NY), the U.S. Department of Justice (Washington, DC), the Navajo Nation Department of Justice (Window Rock, AZ), and the Human Rights Law Network’s Reproductive Rights Unit (New Delhi, India).

Andrew’s degrees are from Northeastern University School of Law (JD 2014) and Berklee College of Music (BM 2011). He lives with his family in the Boston neighborhood of Jamaica Plain.