Andrew J. Petrie is a commercial trial lawyer with over 35 years of significant trial experience before juries and judges in both state and federal courts, and arbitrators.
Drew has a broad range of trial experience and has handled disputes across a wide spectrum of issues and industries. His practice focuses largely on commercial lending and creditors’ rights (including creditor representations in bankruptcy); real estate; environmental and groundwater contamination issues; and insurance coverage disputes involving environmental, property and casualty, errors and omissions, and directors and officers’ coverages.
Experience
Representative Matters
Over a 12 month period, Drew tried four cases to verdicts on a variety of issues—three to juries and one to the court:
- Prosecuted a patent infringement case in the United States District Court for the District of Colorado involving luminescent dissolved oxygen technology and contract licensing issues (June 2016).
- Defended legal malpractice and breach of fiduciary duty claims against a national law firm and one of its partners. The plaintiff client brought these claims in the District Court for the City and County of Denver, all of which related to a client’s investment in the Scott Rothstein Ponzi scheme (October 2016).
- He successfully defended claims in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas brought by the receiver in the Allen Stanford companies' Ponzi scheme, in which the receiver sought to claw back over $120 million in principal and interest from a depositor that had purchased certificates of deposit from the Stanford International Bank (January 2017).
Professional Highlights
Professional Activities
American Bar Association
Colorado Bar Association
University of Colorado Law School
Past Teaching Faculty, Trial Practice Program
University of Denver Sturm College of Law
Past Moot Court Judge
Recognition & Accomplishments
The Best Lawyers in America, Commercial Litigation, 2021-2025, Litigation - Securities, 2023-2025, Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights/Insolvency and Reorganization Law, 2023
Chambers USA, Litigation: General Commercial, 2020-2024
Credentials
Education
University of Utah, S.J. Quinney College of Law (J.D. 1981)
Administrative Editor, University of Utah Law Review; Member, University of Utah National Moot Court Team; William H. Leary Scholar; First Place and Best Oralist, William J. Traynor Moot Court Competition
Dartmouth College (A.B. 1978)
Admissions
Colorado
New York
U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado
U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit