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Andrea Moseley graduated from Rhodes College in Memphis, Tennessee. She served as an intern with the District Attorney General’s Office while attending college in Memphis. She received her law degree from Washington and Lee University School of Law in Lexington, Virginia. She was an executive editor for the Virginia Capital Case Clearinghouse at Washington and Lee. In the course of her work in the Capital Case Clearinghouse, she and the staff provided support to numerous attorneys involved in death penalty cases that were approaching trial.

She is an accomplished attorney with twelve years of criminal litigation experience and a strong background in complex criminal litigation including: white collar crime, street crime, and investigations in both Federal and State courts. She has a proven record of negotiating complex legal issues with opposing counsel and communicating effectively with clients.

She spent her first four years of practice in the Alexandria Public Defender's Office, which is widely regarded as the best in the Commonwealth. Immediately after her employment with the Alexandria Public Defender’s Office she went into private practice with her own law firm of Leibig, Moseley, and Dillard, P.C. (later Leibig, Moseley, and Bennett, P.C.). In 2005, the Firm merged with the Law Offices of John Kenneth Zwerling to form Zwerling, Leibig and Moseley, P.C. She was an Instructor of Legal Rhetoric at the American University Washington College of Law for the 2002-2003 school years. In 2005, she won a landmark decision in the Virginia Supreme Court preventing the Attorney General from civilly committing her client, upon the completion of his original sentence, under the Sexually Violent Predator Act. Commonwealth of Virginia v. Richard Bryan Allen, 269 Va. 262, 609 S.E.2d 4 (2005).

Trial Experience

Andrea Moseley has practiced criminal law exclusively for ten years. She has represented hundreds of clients at trials in criminal cases. She has won acquittals on charges of murder, grand larceny, D.W.I., indecent exposure, assault on a police officer, drug distribution and possession, immigration fraud, and various other criminal charges. In 2003, she was one of the first attorneys in Virginia to defeat the Attorney General's Office at both the trial and appellate level on a petition to civilly commit a person under the new Sexually Violent Predator Act. She has extensive experience defending specialized legal matters such as: internet crimes involving undercover offices posing as minors, RICO conspiracy allegations, money laundering, and State and Federal sex offender registration issues. In addition, she co-authored a recent victorious brief in the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit.

United States of America v. Christopher Ferguson IN THE U.S. COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE 4th CIRCUIT Record No. 05-4460

See also in 'Cases of Note' media coverage of Commonwealth v. Andrew Alston.

Recognition & Awards

Featured for the second year in a row in Virginia Rising Stars. Selected as among the top 2.5 percent of Virginia up-and-coming attorneys in an extensive peer review and evaluation process conducted by Law & Politics. Published in the 2007 and 2008 Virginia Super Lawyers –Rising Stars Edition and Richmond magazine.

Featured in Washingtonian magazine in the December 2007 edition-Recognized for extensive trial experience among "Washington's best - the top 1 percent - in 28 legal specialities."

Washington DC Area’s Best Lawyers, Washington Post Magazine, October 1, 2007 - Lawyers are selected through a rigorous peer-review based on 2 million confidential evaluations by only the top attorneys in the country and thousands of telephone interviews. Best Lawyers has gained the respect of the legal industry, the media, and clients as the most reliable, unbiased source of legal referrals anywhere.

Teaching

During the 2002-2003, Andrea was an instructor of Legal Rhetoric at American University Law School. This course was dedicated to teaching comprehensive legal writing and research skills in addition to providing instruction on how to maximize the specialized presentation of persuasive legal writing.