Andrew S. Love

Andrew Love is a partner in Robbins Geller Rudman & Dowd LLP’s San Francisco office and a member of the Firm’s Appellate Practice Group. Andy concentrates on federal appeals involving securities fraud class actions. Andy has successfully briefed and argued cases on behalf of defrauded investors and consumers in several U.S. Courts of Appeals, as well as in the California appellate courts. Recent published cases include Constr. Laborers Pension Tr. of Greater St. Louis v. Funko Inc., __ F.4th __, 2026 WL 292424 (9th Cir. Feb. 4, 2026), Sherman v. Abengoa, S.A.,  156 F.4th 152 (2d Cir.  2025), New England Carpenters Guaranteed Annuity & Pension Funds v. DeCarlo, 122 F.4th 28 (2d Cir. 2023), Stafford v. Rite Aid Corp., 998 F.3d 862 (9th Cir. 2021), Constr. Indus. & Laborers Joint Pension Tr. v. Carbonite, Inc., 22 F.4th 1 (1st Cir. 2021), and Friedman v. AARP, Inc., 855 F.3d 1047 (9th Cir. 2017). He was also co-counsel in Cyan, Inc. v. Beaver Cnty. Emps. Ret. Fund, 583 U.S. 416 (2018).

Before joining the Firm and for more than two decades, Andy was a death penalty defense lawyer. He represented inmates on California’s death row in habeas corpus proceedings and on direct appeal as a staff attorney at the California Appellate Project, in private practice, and then for a dozen years as a Supervising Deputy State Public Defender. Andy obtained relief for capital clients in both the California Supreme Court and the Ninth Circuit. Andy began his legal career as a staff attorney at the Legal Aid Foundation of Santa Barbara County.

Andy was a long-time co-chair of the Capital Case Defense Seminar, recognized as the largest conference for death penalty practitioners in the country. Additionally, he was on the faculty of the National Institute for Trial Advocacy’s Post-Conviction Skills Seminar. More recently, Andy served as a practitioner-advisor for U.C. Berkeley Law’s Advanced Appellate Advocacy Program. He is a member of the California Academy of Appellate Lawyers.

Andy earned his Bachelor of Arts degree in Philosophy from the University of Vermont and his Juris Doctor degree from the University of San Francisco School of Law, where he graduated cum laude and was a member of the McAuliffe Honor Society.

University of San Francisco School of Law, J.D., 1985, cum laude

• McAuliffe Honor Society (1982-1985)

University of Vermont, B.A., 1981, Philosophy

• California
• United States Supreme Court
• United States Courts of Appeals for the First, Second, Third, Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, Seventh, Eighth, Ninth, Tenth and Eleventh Circuits
• United States District Courts for the Northern, Eastern, Central and Southern Districts of California

• Practitioner-Advisor, U.C. Berkeley Law Advanced Appellate Advocacy Program
• Member, California Academy of Appellate Lawyers
• Co-chair, Capital Case Defense Seminar, 2004-2013