Andrea Deleon Cruz

Andrea represents clients in high-stakes commercial litigation, with experience across securities, intellectual property, class actions and employment-related disputes. She has also defended clients on a range of issues during government investigations by entities including the US Department of Justice and US Securities and Exchange Commission. Andrea is committed to pro bono work, with a particular focus on promoting criminal and racial justice.

During her studies at Yale Law School, Andrea participated in the Peter Gruber Challenging Mass Incarceration Clinic and the Allard K. Lowenstein International Human Rights Clinic, successfully representing a client in a commutation proceeding and co-drafting the legal argument to codify gender apartheid in international human rights instruments for the United Nations, respectively. She held leadership roles in Yale Law Women+, First Generation Professionals and the Women of Color Collective. She also received a Clinical Legal Education Association Outstanding Clinical Team Award and served as a research assistant to professor Miriam Gohara.

Andrea is a recipient of the Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowship for New Americans.

Before law school, Andrea supported litigation at Stanford Law School’s Three Strikes Project. She graduated as a QuestBridge scholar from Stanford University, where she was a Community Impact fellow and a Stanford in Government fellow.