Andrew Berger is counsel to the New York firm of Tannenbaum Helpern Syracuse & Hirschtritt LLP.

He has extensive experience in intellectual property litigation, licensing and commercial litigation. His clients include publishers, content creators, illustrators, filmmakers, including a 2010 Academy Award winner, advertising agencies, software developers and new media companies. He helps his clients enforce their rights when others have infringed his clients’ intellectual property without permission. Andrew also assists his clients to monetize their intellectual property through licensing, joint ventures, sales and related transactions.

Further, Andrew he has considerable commercial trial experience. His clients in complex commercial litigation have included the Government of  Ecudor, the Women’s Professional Tennis Association and a Channel Islands investment company. Andrew has also been teaching trial practice at Hofstra Law School for the past 15 years.

Andrew is a graduate of Cornell University and Cornell Law School and is the past president of the Cornell Law Association, the alumni body representing the 9,000 graduates of that school.

Andrew serves as a co-chair of the Copyright Subcommittee of the IP Litigation Committee of the Litigation Section of the ABA. He was recently elected as a trustee and to the executive committee of the Copyright Society of the U.S.A. He is also a past member of the Federal Courts Committee and the Copyright Committee of New York City Bar .

Andrew frequently writes and speaks about intellectual property topics before bar  and industry groups, law schools and universities, including the Copyright Society, the PLI  Advanced Program on Copyright Law, the Cornell Entrepreneur Network, John Marshall Law School and the American Conference Institute. He is often quoted in the Wall Street Journal and the National Law Journal about IP issues. The October 2010 and 2011 issues of Avenue Magazine listed Andrew as one of New York’s top litigators. His published articles may be found here. Andrew also serves a mediator in the federal and state courts.

Over twenty-five years ago Andrew founded the Litigators Club, a group of about twenty lawyers that meets with judges to discuss matters of common concern regarding litigation in the federal and state courts. The judges from the Second Circuit who have been guests of the Litigators Club include Judges Leval, Livingston and Katzmann and Justice Sotomayor, before she joined the Supreme Court. Andrew in November 2010 welcomed Chief Judge Jonathan Lippman of the New York Court of Appeals who spoke to the Litigators Club about practice in that court.

Andrew lives in the Cobble Hill section of Brooklyn with his wife, a federal prosecutor, two sons and a hyper-active Border Collie named Buster.