Sean Andrade graduated from the University of Pennsylvania Law School, and received his bachelor's degree from the University of California, Irvine. While at the University of Pennsylvania, he received a Certificate of Study in Business and Public Policy from The Wharton School. During law school, he served as Senior Editor of the University of Pennsylvania Journal of Labor & Employment Law and he externed for California Supreme Court Justice Carlos Moreno when Justice Moreno was in the United States District Court for the Central District of California.

Mr. Andrade began his legal career at Baker & Hostetler LLP in Los Angeles where he focused on commercial litigation, products liability, franchise law, and real estate litigation. His commercial litigation experience has involved taking cases from complaint through trial and appeal. He second chaired a complex six-week jury trial and has handled appeals and amicus briefs to the Ninth Circuit, California Supreme Court, and U.S. Supreme Court. He has handled a wide array of cases, including breach of contract, breach of warranty, piercing the corporate veil, fraud and unfair business and misappropriation of trade secrets cases.

His franchise law experience involved the successful representation of several manufacturers of motor vehicles in all types of commercial litigation matters pending in state and federal court and before the California New Motor Vehicle Board. He also represented one of the largest finance companies in the world in multiple commercial breach of contract matters throughout California, resulting in favorable judgments and settlements for the client.

Prior to law school, he worked as the national paralegal and state policy analyst for the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund. Currently, Mr. Andrade serves as the National Secretary for the Hispanic National Bar Association and is a member of the Executive Committee of its National Board of Governors.

Mr. Andrade joined Baute & Tidus in August 2008.

Areas of Practice:

Antitrust & Trade Regulation

Banking & Finance Law

Business & Commercial Law

Business Organizations

Contracts

Employment Law -- Employee

Employment Law -- Employer

Intellectual Property Law

Litigation & Appeals

Real Estate Law

Trademarks

 

Education:

J.D., University of Pennsylvania Law School, 2002

 

Certificate of Study, Business and Public Policy, The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, 2002

 

B.A., University of California at Irvine, 1997

Bar Adminissions:

California, 2002 U.S. District Court, Central District of California, 2002 U.S. District Court, Eastern District of California, 2005 U.S. District Court, Northern District of California, 2008