Andrew Hutton is a Partner in the Austin office of GRSM and is a member of the Pharmaceutical & Medical Device, Product Liability, Appellate, Commercial Litigation, and Construction practice groups.
- Core member of national teams defending pharmaceutical companies in multiple mass tort litigations, including litigations involving diet drugs, cox-2 inhibitors, medication to treat gastroesophageal reflux disease, hormone replacement therapy drugs, and acne medication;
- Coordinated national team in removal to federal court of state court-filed pharmaceutical cases where plaintiffs had fraudulently joined forum defendants in effort to defeat diversity jurisdiction;
- Successfully litigated at the trial and appellate-court level the sufficiency of a certificate of merit in lawsuit alleging engineering defects in a canopy structure at Austin Bergstrom International Airport, culminating in the appellate court’s published opinion in Prouty v. Jaster-Quintanilla & Assoc., 549 S.W.3d 183 (Tex. App.–Austin 2018, no pet.);
- Obtained summary judgment on behalf of a cosmetics manufacturer in a lawsuit alleging personal injuries arising from the use of the manufacturer’s hair dye. See Johnson v. L’Oreal USA S/D, Inc., No. MO-19-CV-00155-DC, 2021 WL 2419455 (W.D. Tex. Mar. 16, 2021);
- Successfully defended a pharmaceutical company at the trial and appellate-court level against prescribing physician’s statutory indemnity claims;
- Successfully obtained dismissal of a stucco contractor in construction defect case involving 26 townhome buildings;
- Successfully defended and mediated construction defect case on behalf of framing subcontractors in lawsuit alleging defects in a 72-building condominium project;
- Successfully defended a plumbing contractor against personal injury claims arising from a water-heater explosion;
- Successfully obtained dismissal of corporate defendant in a breach-of-contract and fraud lawsuit alleging improper appropriation of an energy technology;
- Obtained successful settlement on behalf of electrical transmission company of claims involving defects in a vendor’s transmission line structures;
- Successfully represented an electric utility against allegations that its high-voltage alternating current had caused interference with a gas pipeline company’s cathodic protection systems;
- Successfully defended a Fortune 500 cosmetics manufacturer against product defect allegations involving a perfume;
- Obtained successful settlement of a construction defect lawsuit on behalf of a homeowners association in lawsuit involving a 32-unit condominium complex;
- Successfully obtained dismissal of German corporation from employment lawsuit on personal jurisdiction grounds;
- Successfully litigated motion to transfer venue from a Texas federal court to a Colorado federal court in a product liability lawsuit.
Admissions
- Texas
- U.S. Supreme Court
- U.S. Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit
- U.S. District Court, Northern, Southern, Eastern, and Western Districts of Texas
Community Involvement
- Chair and Member, Bond Advisory Committee, Dripping Springs Independent School District
- Fellow, Texas Bar Foundation
- Community Ambassador, Dripping Springs Independent School District
- Ruling Elder, Dripping Springs Presbyterian Church
- Long Range Facilities Planning Committee, Dripping Springs Independent School District
- Bond Steering Committee, Dripping Springs Independent School District
- Gifted & Talented Advisory Committee, Dripping Springs Independent School District
- Co-Chair, Friends of Dripping Springs Education
Education
- J.D., magna cum laude, Duke University School of Law, 1999
- Criminal Litigation Clinic
- Death Penalty Clinic
- Rape Crisis Center of Durham, Volunteer Community Educator
- Duke Law Drama Society
- B.A., cum laude, English and Theater, Tulane University, 1995
- Tulane Theater
- Randall Lee Gibson Honor Society
- Dean’s List
Honors
- Texas Rising Stars® distinction in the field of Personal Injury Defense: Products (2011, 2012, & 2013)
- “Courage Award”, Austin LGBT Bar Association (2017)