Andy Vickery

For nearly 30 years, Andy's focus was primarily on national pharmaceutical litigation and serious personal injury cases. In 1997, Andy was invited to join the American Board of Trial Advocates (ABOTA), an organization which is composed of both plaintiffs’ and defendants’ counsel. It is one of the few organizations in the legal profession that you can’t simply join; you have to be invited by your peers. His rank of “Advocate” means that, as of that time, Andy had tried in excess of 50 jury cases through to verdict. It is now 100+.

Andy is proud to be a trial lawyer. For the majority of his career in Texas, he has had the honor and privilege of representing families who have lost a loved one, people who have been injured, and small business owners who have been victimized by predatory competitors.

In the summer of 2002, Andy spent 22 days at Gerry Spence’s ranch in Dubois, Wyoming. Gerry, his second mentor in 30 years of law practice, re-emphasized three basic tenets that Andy trie to follow in his law practice: (1) listen to your client with both your ears and all of your heart, (2) tell their story – passionately but honestly; and then (3) completely trust the jury to do the right thing.

Jury verdicts change society. Andy is proud to say that he has been involved in several jury verdicts that he likes to think are quite significant in the world of pharmaceutical litigation. One of these is Tobin vs. SmithKline. On June 6, 2001, a Wyoming jury found in favor of the plaintiff with a multi-million-dollar verdict against SmithKline. This was an important verdict about the adverse behavioral effects of a psychotropic drug. In 2004, it led to FDA-mandated black box warnings about the risk of antidepressant-induced suicidality and violence, which Eli Lilly, SmithKline, and Pfizer all denied but which we proved via the Tobin verdict.