LEGAL EXPERIENCE
Mr. Andrus is admitted before all of the courts of the State of California and the State of Utah, including the California Supreme Court and the Utah Supreme Court. Mr. Andrus is a member of the Bar of the Supreme Court of the United States. Mr. Andrus is also admitted to practice in the federal trial courts including the Central, Eastern and Northern districts of California, the district of Utah and Appellate Courts, including the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. Mr. Andrus has also practiced before other federal courts, such as the District of Arizona, and has appeared pro hac vice in the Southern District of Florida and the Northern District of Texas.
ACADEMIC BACKGROUND
Mr. Andrus graduated and received his Juris Doctor degree from Southwestern University School of Law, Los Angeles, in 1984. He also received an advanced international law degree, LL.M, in business and taxation transnational practice from the University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law, Sacramento, in 1987. Mr. Andrus completed an internship with the Geneva, Switzerland law firm of Patry, Junet, Simon et Le Fort, a firm specializing in international commercial business and banking, during which he also assisted with the International Bar Association convention in Vienna, Austria. During law school, Mr. Andrus was a law clerk for the Pasadena, California firm of Munns, Kofford, Hoffman, Hunt & Throckmorton. Mr. Andrus has participated in the College of Trial Advocacy at the Hastings College of Law, San Francisco, and has lectured on a variety of legal topics. Prior to his legal education, Mr. Andrus graduated from Brigham Young University in 1981, receiving a Bachelor of Arts degree in humanities, with an emphasis in french and literature.
COMMUNITY ACTIVITIES
Mr. Andrus was appointed in 1990 to serve as a judge pro tem in the Sacramento County Municipal/Superior Courts. He also serves as an alternative dispute resolution judge pro tem for El Dorado County.