A veteran commercial litigator and neutral, Andrew Flake brings more than two decades of business trial and commercial dispute resolution experience, along with tenacity and creative problem-solving, to help parties and their lawyers resolve their disputes, both domestic and cross-border and international. He has experience handling and resolving a wide range of business and commercial disputes, both domestic and international, with a focus on intellectual property and technology, contract, corporate, employment, and healthcare sectors. Mr. Flake is recognized in Best Lawyers® in the area of Commercial Litigation and is a Georgia Super Lawyer in the area of Commercial Litigation. He is an arbitrator with the American Arbitration Association (AAA) and a member of its Commercial, Employment, Healthcare, and Large Complex Case panels, as well as an international arbitrator and panel member of the International Centre for Dispute Resolution. He is certified mediator with the Georgia Office of Dispute Resolution, a member of the Early Dispute Resolution Institute, and a member of AAA’s mediation panel. Mr. Flake is a frequent writer and speaker on ADR topics, including the role of generative artificial intelligence in ADR.
Andrew’s experience includes high stakes and bet-the-company commercial disputes and litigation across a range of subject matter areas, including intellectual property, software and technology, cybersecurity, unfair competition, restrictive covenants and theft of trade secrets; employment law, false advertising, trademark and patent infringement, defamation and rights of publicity, breach of fiduciary duty, shareholder rights and corporate governance; business divorces; trusts and estates and fiduciary litigation; RICO; breach of commercial contracts, lending and creditors’ rights, product liability, interference with business relations and other business torts, and accounting and business valuation. He is a German speaker and has worked in international dispute resolution — both cross-border litigation and international arbitration — throughout his career, and currently serves as an arbitrator with the International Centre for Dispute Resolution (ICDR).
Whatever the nature of the dispute, his focus in every case is on understanding the particular needs of the parties, providing a prompt, neutral and transparent process, and prompt and efficient resolution.