Andrew Ready Tate

Of Counsel

Andrew Ready Tate is an Attorney based in the Atlanta office of the firm. In his practice, Andrew aggressively litigates class action and mass cases across the United States, covering a broad spectrum of subject matters.

Andrew leads complex class and mass actions involving digital tracking technologies, data breaches, and consumer and child privacy violations. His cases target unauthorized data collection and transmission through tools such as Meta Pixel, Google Analytics, and SDKs used by major healthcare, education, and consumer platforms. He regularly litigates claims under federal and state wiretap laws, such as the California Invasion of Privacy Act, and analogous statutes nationwide. Beyond privacy litigation, Andrew represents victims in complex tort cases involving institutional neglect and systemic failure, including nursing home understaffing and fertility clinic malpractice. In less than three years of class action practice, Andrew has negotiated class settlements valuing over $50 million.

Prior to joining Peiffer Wolf, Andrew litigated employment cases concerning discrimination, denial of benefits, workplace torts, contract disputes, and retaliation, including violations of whistleblower protection laws. Andrew has also litigated cases involving excessive use of force, unreasonable search and seizure, cruel and unusual punishment, coerced sterilization, due process violations, and medical malpractice in correctional settings, including numerous wrongful death cases. In 2018, Andrew litigated cases that successfully fought the U.S. Government’s family separation practices at the U.S.-Mexico border, reuniting numerous families as a result.

In his first jury trial, a medical malpractice case, Andrew was first chair and achieved a verdict of $1.3 million for a client who received negligent care after he fractured his hand in prison. This is one of the highest verdicts ever awarded to a living plaintiff who was injured in a correctional setting. Prior to this verdict, the first chair opposing counsel had tried over 130 cases and never lost a case in federal court. Andrew was then honored for achieving one of the Top 100 Medical Malpractice verdicts in the United States in 2019.

A native Atlantan, Andrew holds a Bachelor of Arts and a Juris Doctor from Emory University. At Emory Law, he competed on the school’s Negotiation Team, served on the Student Bar Association and the Turner Environmental Law Clinic, and interned for the late Chief Justice P. Harris Hines of the Supreme Court of Georgia.

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