Gay andrew

A Professional Lawyer You Can Trust

Speaker: Andrew Gay, Jr., Philadelphia Criminal Defense & Personal Injury Lawyer

“My dad practiced law in this town for 42 years. I remember going to trials of his in City Hall and I believe having those experiences as a young kid forms the type of lawyer that I am today.

I like to get to know the client. I like to understand what the client’s dilemma is and how it is that we can get the best outcome for them.

I believe what separates myself from other lawyers in Philadelphia, is that I truly make myself available to clients at any time of the day. 

When people come to me for a criminal defense matter they come to me because their liberty is literally at stake. 

When someone approaches me about a personal injury matter, they come to me because their lives have been turned upside down and they need someone to help them put it back to the way that it was before this accident occured.

If I had to apply three words to describe the lawyer that I am today, I would characterize them as reliable, dedicated and prepared.”



Communication Faculty

Dean of the School of Arts & Communication and the Oregon Center for the Arts and Professor of Digital Cinema
MFA, Entrepreneurial Digital Cinema, University of Central Florida, 2010; BFA, Film Production, University of Central Florida, 2006; BA, English & Philosophy/Religion, Flagler College, 2003

Andrew Kenneth Gay (he/him) leads the Academy of Arts & Communication and the Oregon Center for the Arts as director and is a tenured professor of Digital Cinema, where he teaches storytelling, career development, and film production management. He received SOU’s Distinguished Teaching Award in 2021 and the University Film & Video Association’s National Award for Teaching Excellence in 2022. Before becoming a full-time educator, Andrew worked as a freelance production coordinator, production manager, and assistant director in commercials, reality television, and independent film, and for such companies as Red Bull, Discovery, and Disney. He has written, directed, and produced for both fiction and documentary media and has served as board pre

Andrew Scott is right – it’s time to retire the phrase ‘openly gay’

Andrew Scott is capable of many things but giving a dull interview seems not to be among them. Last year, he was splendidly decrying the tyranny of the standing ovation in modern theatre (“I strongly believe that if people don’t feel like standing up, they shouldn’t”). Now, in one of those cosy Hollywood Reporter roundtable discussions which proliferate during awards season, he has challenged a piece of outdated rhetoric from an era when queerness was synonymous with shame.

The moment arose when the moderator Scott Feinberg singled out Scott, who stars in Andrew Haigh’s All of Us Strangers as a screenwriter magically reunited with the parents who died when he was 12, and Colman Domingo, who plays Martin Luther King’s advisor Bayard Rustin in the Netflix biopic Rustin, as “openly gay actors playing openly gay characters who are at the centre of important films”. The remark was intended as a way in to a discussion about representation, though at no point did he refer to the other performers present (Robert Downey

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Andrew Gay is a corporate and venture capital lawyer with experience advising start-up companies throughout their lifecycles. He joined the firm from JAG Shaw Baker when they merged with Withers to build a new legal offering, Withers tech, in 2018. Andrew also has expertise in advising venture capital firms on their convertible debt and equity investments into portfolio companies. He has represented a wide variety of technology companies from consumer internet, software, telecommunications and entertainment technology industries with a focus on corporate governance matters, equity and debt issuances and mergers and acquisitions. Andrew qualified as an attorney on taking the Massachusetts Mention Bar in 2008. Prior to JAG Shaw Baker, Andrew worked in the Boston office of a Silicon Valley-based law adj.