Practice areas: General Litigation, Appellate, Civil Litigation; view more
Education: Harvard Law School
Selected to Rising Stars: 2025 - 2026 Cohen Dowd Quigley P.C.
2425 East Camelback RoadSuite 1100
Phoenix, AZ 85016 Phone: 602-252-8400 Email: Drew Wegner Visit website
Drew is a trial and appellate litigator who represents individual and corporate clients in commercial and administrative matters in state and federal courts. He has litigated complex insurance recovery, antitrust, contract and civil rights cases, and is experienced in drafting dispositive motions and appeals. Drew has published numerous articles, including for the Oxford University Press and the Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review. Before entering private practice, Drew clerked for Judge Daniel P. Collins on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and interned for Judge Dabney Friedrich on the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia.
Practice areas
General Litigation, Appellate, Civil Litigation: Plaintiff, Administrative LawProfessional Webpage: https://cdqlaw.com/drew-wegner-3/
Bar / Professional Activity
- CA Bar, 2020
Pro bono / Community Service
- Co-represent death row inmate in federal habeas proceedings. , 2023
Honors
- The Dean’s Awards for Community Leadership, https://hls.harvard.edu/today/students-honored-at-2019-class-day-ceremony/, 2019
Educational Background
- University of California, Los Angeles B.A., Politics, magna cum laude, 2014
Scholarly Lectures / Writings
- This Article analyzes constitutional concerns presented by the use of risk-assessment technology in the criminal justice system, and how courts can best address them. Focusing on due process and equal protection, this Article explores avenues for constitutional challenges to risk-assessment technology at federal and state levels and outlines how instruments might be retooled to increase accuracy and accountability while satisfying constitutional standards, Author, Constitutional Dimensions of Predictive Algorithms in Criminal Justice, 2020
- Why do some ideas of uncertain merit, like conspiracy theories, gain traction and spread through society? To date, conspiracy theory scholarship primarily focuses on thick description, generates case-specific hypotheses, and answers this question on an ad hoc basis. To take the next step in terms of scientific progress, the conspiracy theory literature must develop explanations that generalize across cases. To the extent that scholars have offered a more general explanation, they point to a formal theory called herd behavior, which was designed to explain why people believe ideas in the absence of much evidence. The herd behavior model has been advanced as a matter of convenience rather than as a result of critical assessment about the mechanisms in play. But it’s not the only mechanism by which a dubious ideas might spread and, furthermore, it fails to fit the facts of many cases where conspiracy theories gain traction. We consider how three other major political science explanations of opinion formation can be applied to conspiracy theories and provide a foundation for conspiracy theory researchers interested in moving from the scholarly conversation from description to explanation. , Author, How Conspiracy Theories Spread, 2018
Office location for Drew Wegner
2425 East Camelback Road
Suite 1100
Phoenix, AZ 85016
Selections
- Rising Stars: 2025 - 2026