ANDREA C. KRAMER

Andrea Kramer is an experienced litigator who has represented businesses, hospitals, academic institutions, and individuals for nearly twenty years primarily in the areas of commercial disputes and employment law. She has also litigated trademark, copyright, and trade secret cases, property disputes, professional malpractice cases, earn-out cases, and product liability cases.

As both an advisor and a litigator, Andrea has advised clients on dispute resolution and counseled clients through disputes without litigation. She also has counseled individuals in negotiating severance and employment agreements. Andrea’s clients appreciate her practical approach to resolving disputes and her business and financial acumen in addressing damages issues and possible resolutions.

Andrea also has an active appellate practice. She recently represented a nonprofit corporation before the Massachusetts Appellate Court in an employment discrimination case, succeeding in having the Court reverse a $2.2 million lower court judgment against the defendant. She also authored an amicus brief in the Hancock school funding case then-pending before the Supreme Judicial Court on behalf of Massachusetts 2020, the Nellie Mae Education Foundation, and eleven other co-signers, and she has authored or participated in over a dozen appellate briefs on issues of importance to women and children in Massachusetts and federal appellate courts.

Andrea is a member of HRW's Data Security Team, which was formed to develop a comprehensive approach to new data security laws, including programs for compliance, and she has spoken and trained on the subject and monitored and participated in relevant legislative activities.

A leader in the law, Andrea is a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation, an honorary organization of attorneys, judges, and law professors whose professional, public, and private careers have demonstrated outstanding dedication to their communities and to the highest principles of the legal profession. She has also served for a decade as an adjunct professor at Brandeis University, where her courses have included ones on uses of scientific evidence in litigation and sex discrimination law.

Practice Areas

• Contract Disputes 
• Business Litigation
• Noncompetition Agreements
• Data Security and Identity Theft
• Appellate Advocacy

Recognition and Honors

AV Rated by Martindale-Hubbell
Named a “Massachusetts Super Lawyer” (top 5% of lawyers) in areas of Business Litigation, General Litigation, and Employment & Labor by Boston Magazine.

Published Works

More Than Part-Time: The Effect of Reduced-Hours Arrangements on the Retention, Recruitment, and Success of Women Attorneys in Law Firms, 2000, Co-author.

Speaking Engagements

Taking and Defending Effective Depositions in Massachusetts, Presented to Continuing Education audience, January 2004.

Abusive Discovery Practices, Massachusetts Continuing Legal Education, 2008

Navigating the New Massachusetts & Federal Data Security Laws, MCLE, 2009

Guest Lecturer, Harvard Law School, First Year Problems Course (on Noncompetition Agreements), 2009

Guest Lecturer, Boston University School of Law Course on Mediation

Prior Experience

Prior to joining Hirsch Roberts Weinstein, Andrea was a partner with Sullivan Weinstein & McQuay, where she has practiced law since 1999. Ms. Kramer previously practiced with the firms of Wiggin & Dana in New Haven and Goodwin, Procter & Hoar in Boston. She also was a professor at the University of Bridgeport School of Law (now Quinnipiac School of Law).

Bar Admissions

Connecticut, 1995
Massachusetts, 1991
Michigan, 2000
U.S. Court of Appeals, First Circuit

Education

Harvard Law School, J.D., magna cum laude, 1990
Wellesley College, B.A., magna cum laude, 1985.

Civic Activities    

• Women's Bar Association of Massachusetts, 1996-present 
      Board member, 1999-present
      Treasurer, 2007-present
      Chair, Amicus Committee, 2005-present
      Chair, Employment Issues Committee, 2000-2005
      Co-author of More Than Part-Time: The Effect of Reduced-    

      Hours Arrangements on the Retention, Recruitment, and 

      Success of Women Attorneys in Law Firms (2000)         

      Founder and co-chair, New Lawyers Committee, 1998-1999
•  Massachusetts 2020, 2005-present          
      Board Member, 2005-present
      Member of Audit/Finance Committee, 2006-present
      Secretary 2008-present
• Boston Bar Association’s Administration of Justice Steering Committee, 2009-present
• Cambridge Kids Council, 2007-present
• Massachusetts Women’s Political Caucus, 2006-present          
      Board Member, 2007-present
      Treasurer, 2009-present
• Massachusetts Government Appointments Project, 2006-present
• National Conference of Women’s Bar Associations, Board Member, 2009-present