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Paul K. Andersen

Paul Andersen is an associate and a member of the White Collar Defense and Investigations practice. His practice focuses on government investigations, regulatory enforcement actions, internal investigations, congressional investigations, white-collar defense, and complex civil litigation matters.  

Paul represents individuals and corporations before various federal regulators and enforcement authorities, including the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the US Department of Justice (DOJ).

Paul is committed to service and community engagement, and is actively involved in pro bono matters, including advocating for veterans pursuing disability claims, drafting Special Immigrant Juveniles status petitions, and pursuing actual innocence claims with the Mid-Atlantic Innocence Project.

Before joining the firm, Paul successfully represented a client on appeal before a three-judge panel of the Appellate Court of Maryland as a student attorney in the University of Maryland School of Law Criminal Appellate Clinic. He also served as a summer associate with the firm in 2023.

During law school, Paul had the privilege of serving as a judicial intern for the Honorable George L. Russell, III, for the US District Court for the District of Maryland, where he conducted legal research and wrote memoranda to assist in adjudicating criminal and civil cases. He was also a law clerk at the Office of the Maryland State Prosecutor focusing on public corruption, and a legal intern in the SEC’s Division of Enforcement focusing on cryptocurrency enforcement actions. Paul also served as the editor-in-chief of the Journal of Business and Technology Law where he wrote, selected, and published articles discussing legal issues at the intersection of business and technology.

Before law school, Paul served as the operations director for a national non-profit organization. While there, Paul led the internal investigation into, and successful resolution of, more than 100 alleged organizational policy violations

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