Andrea A. Lewis
Top rated Personal Injury attorney in West Palm Beach, Florida
Searcy Denney Scarola Barnhart & Shipley, P.A.
Practice areas: Personal Injury
Licensed in Florida since: 2010
Education: Florida State University College of Law
Searcy Denney Scarola Barnhart & Shipley, P.A.
2139 Palm Beach Lakes BoulevardWest Palm Beach, FL 33409 Phone: 561-686-6300 Email: Andrea A. Lewis Visit website
ANDREA A. LEWIS is a Shareholder and experienced trial lawyer who frequently handles high profile cases, including sexual assault, sexually motivated crimes and crimes against children. Ms. Lewis has appeared as a legal analysis and law enforcement expert on Court TV and she has been quoted in national and international publications, including USAToday, FoxNews, CNN, ESPN, DailyMail, Barrons, Le Monde and many others. As a former felony prosecutor and current civil litigator, Ms. Lewis has a wealth of trial experience and has conducted over 85 jury trials.
Additionally, Ms. Lewis recently won the 2024 Palm Beach Post Community Choice Awards and received the coveted title of Best Personal Injury Attorney. She is also the President-Elect of the Palm Beach County Bar Association.
Ms. Lewis has handled many notable cases, including an $8,500,000 jury verdict against a medical concierge company whose doctor caused a woman to lose part of her leg. In the last two years, Ms. Lewis has recovered over $11,000,000 for survivors of sexual assault and abuse. Due to her experience prosecuting and handling sexually motivated crimes, Ms. Lewis is familiar with law enforcement practices and investigations, including those involving children. Through her representation of child athletes, Ms. Lewis is one of only a few attorneys who has experience representing children through the U.S. Center for Safesport’s arbitration and hearing process since Congress created the organization in 2020.
Prior to joining the firm, Ms. Lewis was the Deputy Chief of the Palm Beach County State Attorney’s Office where she led a department of approximately 30 prosecutors. While working at the State Attorney’s Office, Ms. Lewis handled thousands of cases, including murders, sexual assaults, armed home invasions, child sexual abuse, DUI resulting in serious injury/death, bank robberies, and many other violent felony offenses. She fought tirelessly to get the victims and survivors of crimes the justice that they deserved while working to ensure that violent criminals were taken off the streets and sent to prison.
Since 2018, Ms. Lewis has been selected as one of the Best Lawyers in America and as Palm Beach Illustrated’s Top Lawyers for Medical Malpractice and Personal Injury. Ms. Lewis has also been consistently recognized as National Trial Lawyer’s Top 40 Under 40 and she has been selected to receive the Super Lawyers designation each year since 2021. In 2014, Ms. Lewis was selected Young Lawyer of the Year by the Palm Beach County Bar Association.
Ms. Lewis has also taken a strong leadership role in the Palm Beach County legal community. In 2023, she was named President-Elect of the Palm Beach County Bar Association, where she has served on the Board of Directors since 2017. She is a past President of Palm Beach County Bar Association’s Young Lawyers Section and is a frequent speaker at local Bar Association events, recently serving as a panelist at the county’s annual Bench Bar Conference. In addition to her volunteer work with legal organizations, Ms. Lewis is a member of the Junior League of the Palm Beaches, where she is a former Vice President and member of the Executive Board.
Ms. Lewis earned two undergraduate degrees from Florida State University - one in finance, the other in real estate - and graduated with honors. She received her Juris Doctorate from the Florida State University College of Law, where she was a member of the school’s prestigious mock trial team.
First Admitted: 2010, Florida
Professional Webpage: https://www.searcylaw.com/attorneys/andrea-a-lewis/
Bar / Professional Activity
- Palm Beach County Justice Association
- Florida Justice Association
- Florida Association for Women Laywers (FAWL). Board of Directors 2016-2017
- Palm Beach County Bar Association Young Lawyers Section: President, 2017-2018; Vice President, 2016-2017; Secretary 2015-2016; Treasurer, 2014-2015; Board member, 2010 to present
- Florida Bar Association
- Palm Beach County Bar Association. Board member 2017-2018, 2018-2019
Pro bono / Community Service
- Junior League of the Palm Beachs. Vice President 2018-2019.
Honors
- Young Lawyer of the Year, Palm Beach County Bar Association, 2014
- Awarded as Top 40 Under 40, National Trial Lawyers, 2016
Selections
- Super Lawyers: 2021 - 2026
- Rising Stars: 2017 - 2020