An Thien Tran

An Thien (Andy) Tran serves as Senior Counsel in the Employment Law Group.  He represents clients before state and federal administrative agencies and courts, as well as in arbitration proceedings. His litigation experience includes defense of retaliation, discrimination, harassment, wage/hour, breach of contract, and fraud claims, including potential class actions.

Before GRSM, Andy was a litigator at two national law firms, defending healthcare institutions and Fortune 500 companies against professional and general liability claims.  During law school, he served under the Obama administration in the U.S. Department of Justice, U.S. Department of the Treasury, and Federal Communications Commission.

Admissions

• California

Memberships

• Board Member, Vietnamese American Bar Association of Southern California

Community Involvement 

• General Counsel, Project by Project

Publications

• Author, Survivability of the Affordable Care Act to Advance Health Equity Reform for Communities of Color, Orange County Lawyer Magazine, Vol. 63, No. 3, March 2021
• Author, Rewiring doctors’ and lawyers’ ‘HIPAA-campi’, Los Angeles Daily Journal, February 2021
• Author, A Trifold Regulatory Convergence: Medical-Device Drones under the FAA, FDA, and State Regimes, 68:4 Admin. L. Rev. 701, 2016

Presentations

• Speaker, Asian American Power in the 2024 Election, Policy Summit, UCLA, March 8, 2024

EDUCATION

J.D., American University Washington College of Law

• Articles Editor, Administrative Law Review

B.A., Linguistics and English, University of California, Berkeley

• Vietnamese