Andrea Galvez

• Representing an interstate pipeline company in multiforum litigation and permitting proceedings relating to its pipeline project.
• Representing a Los Angeles-area refinery in a challenge under the California Environmental Quality Act to the conversion of an existing crude oil refinery into a renewable fuels facility.
• Conducted an internal investigation for a major retailer relating to bribery allegations.
• Served as second chair in a commercial litigation trial, which, after the post-trial briefing, resulted in full declaratory and injunctive relief.

Andrea Galvez is an associate with Alston & Bird’s Environment, Land Use & Natural Resources Group. Before joining the firm, Andrea served as a legal extern for Justice Sarah Hawkins Warren of the Georgia Supreme Court and the Hon. Timothy C. Batten, Sr. of the Northern District of Georgia. She has also served as a research assistant at Emory University School of Law and as an immigration paralegal.

Andrea received her J.D. with high honors from Emory University School of Law where she was the executive online editor for the Emory Law Journal and the vice president of communications for the Emory Latin American Law Students Association. She graduated in the top 5 percent of her class and was inducted into the Order of the Coif. While in law school, she was awarded the Myron Penn Laughlin Award for Excellence in Legal Research and Writing and the State Bar of Georgia Employment Law Section Award for Outstanding Achievement in Employment Law.

Andrea received her M.A. in Latin American studies from Vanderbilt University and her A.B., magna cum laude, in Romance languages & literatures from Harvard College. She is fluent in Spanish and Portuguese.

Languages

• Spanish
• Portuguese

Bar Admissions

• Georgia

Education

• Emory University (J.D., 2022)
• Vanderbilt University (M.A., 2018)
• Harvard College (A.B., 2015)

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