Bio
Andrew Lah is the Managing Partner at Moeel Lah Fakhoury LLP, a litigation boutique specializing in complex criminal and civil litigation. He was previously a Managing Attorney with the San Francisco District Attorney’s Office, where he supervised a staff of prosecutors and investigators working on criminal civil rights cases. Andrew also created the Community Lawyering and Civil Rights Unit at the Oakland City Attorney’s Office where he oversaw affirmative civil rights litigation, worked as a complex litigator at a national law firm, and was a federal public defender.
Over the course of his career, Andrew has tried cases in federal and state courts, and he has trained public defenders, prosecutors, and civil litigators on investigations and trial practice, including at multinational forums with lawyers from Jamaica, Ecuador, Brazil, South Korea, and Canada. He has advised numerous entities on civil rights and criminal justice issues, such as the Ministerio Publico in Rio de Janeiro and the Washington Task Force on Policing.
In addition to his legal practice, Andrew teaches criminal procedure, evidence, and police use of force at University of California, Hastings College of the Law, University of California, Berkeley School of Law, and Golden Gate Law School. Andrew received his B.A. from Cornell University, and his J.D. from the University of California, Los Angeles School of Law, where he completed the Epstein Program in Public Interest Law and Policy.