Andrew P. Baratta

Andy is a graduate of St. Joe's Prep and the University of Pennsylvania, where he was an integral member of nationally ranked, Championship basketball teams in the early 90's. Andy was twice voted Penn's most inspirational player, and was also awarded the 1994 Harry Litwack Award by the Big 5 sportswriters. After graduating from Temple Law School, Andy began his career as a prosecutor in the Delaware County District Attorney's Office, where he litigated every type of case, from juvenile crime up to and including capital murder. After leaving the D.A.'s Office, Andy worked for a year at a mid-sized Philadelphia insurance defense firm before joining in 2002 the firm founded by his brother, Tony, and Ken Russell.

Since joining the firm, which became Baratta, Russell & Baratta in 2005, Andy has focused his practice on representing individuals who have been seriously injured as the result of negligence, as well as businesses and physicians in a wide variety of litigation matters. Andy is also an accomplished writer. His first novel, What Color Justice, was published in late 2005 to critical acclaim. Andy was identified in 2006, 2007, 2008, and 2010 as a Pennsylvania "Rising Star," a group comprised of the top 5% of lawyers in the state who have been practicing for 10 years or less.

Andy and his wife Noelle are the proud parents of a boy and a girl and live in Phoenixville.