Andrea Casalett is an associate in the San Francisco office of McKenna Long & Aldridge, where she concentrates her practice on product liability and toxic torts litigation. Ms. Casalett represents a broad range of clients in asbestos product liability cases in California, including premise owners and manufacturers, distributors and suppliers of a wide variety of products. She is involved with all aspects of litigation, including discovery and depositions, dispositive and pre-trial motions and trial preparation and coordinates pre-trial defense management with national counsel, and is involved with client case management.

Prior to joining McKenna Long & Aldridge, Ms. Casalett was a Litigation Specialist with Equality California, where she researched and prepared memoranda regarding property rights, employment and insurance benefits relative to litigation of domestic partnership law. As a student lawyer for the General Assistance Advocacy Project, Ms. Casalett gained significant experience in drafting briefs, reviewing discovery documents, and conducting direct and cross-examination of witnesses, which she successfully used to represent clients in arbitration hearings at the Department of Human Services.

Prior to law school, Ms. Casalett worked in the Public Affairs Department of State Farm Insurance where she assisted community groups, the media and often State Farm’s own in-house attorneys with issues related to government affairs.