P. Andrew Fleming

BIOGRAPHY

Andrew Fleming represents individuals, small, mid-size and large companies in complex commercial litigation. A litigator with extensive trial experience, Andrew has obtained multi-million dollar verdicts for clients and has successfully defended claims of a similar scale.

When the Chicago Sun-Times described Novack and Macey as "a small firm known for a bulldog manner in litigation," they were writing about one of Andrew's cases. In it, the firm successfully represented Night Vision Corporation (“NVC”), inventors of a “Panoramic Night Vision Goggle” that the U. S. Air Force hailed as a revolutionary piece of military equipment. The goggles provided pilots with more than double the field of vision of the old systems, while also enhancing safety. According to NVC's suit, the Air Force was on the verge of awarding NVC a contract to produce thousands of goggles when NVC’s chief subcontractor misappropriated the technology and ultimately wrested the contract away from NVC. A very favorable settlement the night before the jury trial was to begin in federal court in Virginia.

Andrew has represented a number of real estate developers in disputes with contractors, subcontractors and lenders. He is experienced in business torts, financial institutions litigation and partnership law, and has represented numerous energy suppliers in supply contract disputes.  In December 2008, Andrew served as counsel in a case in which the firm's client, Pentech Pharmaceuticals, Inc., won $70 million following a trial in federal court in Chicago.  Far from geographically limited to the Chicago area, Andrew's diverse practice has brought him to try cases in California, Texas, Louisiana and Virginia, among other places.

Andrew was asked to appear in federal court in Michigan to testify as an expert in UK defamation law on behalf of Amway in a dispute with a UK-based manufacturer of vacuum cleaners. He is a member of the American and Chicago Bar Associations. Andrew has lectured at Northwestern University School of Law. Before joining Novack and Macey, Andrew was a partner at Isham, Lincoln & Beale.

EDUCATION

• Leeds University, England (L.L.B. 1979); Duke of Edinburgh and Geoffrey Veale Scholarships, Honourable Society of the Inner Temple
• IIT, Chicago-Kent School of Law (J.D. 1982)

BAR ADMISSIONS

• Illinois
• Trial Bar of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois
• Admitted as a Barrister to practice in England and Wales

REPRESENTATIVE CASES

• Pentech Pharmaceuticals, Inc. v. Par Pharmaceutical, Inc., 597 F. Supp. 2d 758 (N.D. Ill 2009)
• In re Estate of Mueller, 275 Ill. App. 3d 128 (1st Dist. 1995)
• Leffingwell v. Sears, Roebuck & Co., 717 F.Supp. 620 (N.D. Ill. 1989)
• Amway Corporation v. James Dyson, Case No. 1:97-CV-295, 1997 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 15735
• Night Vision Corporation v. Insight Technology, Inc., Case No. 02-691

MEDIA COVERAGE

• Novack and Macey Attorneys Again Selected as Super Lawyers and Rising Stars
• Novack and Macey Attorneys Secure Complete Dismissal of a Case Against Their Client
• David Beats Goliath...Again
• Novack and Macey Attorneys Are Super Lawyers and Rising Stars!
• Novack and Macey Obtains Emergency Relief to Protect Client's Patent Interest