Andrew C. Hall, Esq., Of Blessed Memory
Andrew C. Hall (9/16/1944 – 9/16/2019) – During his lifetime, Andrew Hall tried cases arising from some of the nation’s most significant historical events. From the Watergate trials and the Ohio savings and loan crisis, to the 2000 terrorist attack on the USS Cole, Mr. Hall’s trial skills were recognized as among the top echelon of litigators in the nation.
From 1973-1975, Mr. Hall earned recognition as defense counsel for John D. Ehrlichman, President Richard Nixon’s former senior advisor for domestic affairs, in the Watergate and Plumbers trials. During the late 1980s, he defended former Ambassador Marvin L. Warner in several major cases following the collapse of Ohio’s state-insured savings and loan industry.
Mr. Hall then emerged as a leader in the fight against state-sponsored terrorism. In 2010, he appeared before the U.S. Supreme Court on behalf of the families of Americans who were taken hostage and tortured following the first Gulf War. He also represented the families of U.S. sailors who died in the USS Cole attack, for which he recovered a multi-million dollar payment from the Sudanese government. Mr. Hall obtained a judgment for $316,000,000 for the sailors who were hurt in the bombing of the USS Cole against the Government of Sudan arising from its support of terrorism. Following his death and the U.S. Supreme Court’s vacation of the Judgments against Sudan, Mr. Hall’s son and law partner, Adam S. Hall, along with Texas co-counsel Nelson M. Jones, successfully settled the U.S.S. Cole cases against Sudan by the payment to the victims and their families of $70 million.
Mr. Hall secured a $2.8 billion judgment on behalf of a Cuban expatriate for damages stemming from the forced suicide of the plaintiff’s father by the Castro regime, as well as the continued terror attacks launched against his family by the Cuban government.
Closer to home, Mr. Hall’s casework involved complex commercial litigation, professional negligence, securities litigation and arbitration, family law, personal injury and wrongful death. Mr. Hall represented the former Chief Operating Officer of AT&T in a $16 million malpractice suit against his former legal counsel. Mr. Hall has handled other high profile matters including the representation of Robert Bell, inventor of Banana Boat suntan lotion, in a shareholder derivative suit, in which he recovered $3.2 million. He also represented former Peruvian vice president and ambassador to the United Nations, Francisco Tudela, in the kidnapping, false imprisonment, and forced marriage of his 94-year old father, business magnate Felipe Tudela. Tracking defendants across continents, Hall successfully upheld Francisco’s guardianship of his father in Peru, brought Tudela senior back into the care of his family, and protected the value of his estate.
Born in Warsaw, Poland in 1944 while his Jewish parents hid from Nazi occupiers, Mr. Hall was tireless in his pursuit for justice and desire to stand up against oppression and abuse of power.
Outside the courtroom, Mr. Hall served on numerous civic boards. Closest to his heart, Mr. Hall served two consecutive four year terms as Chairman of the Miami Beach Holocaust Memorial. Mr. Hall was a recipient of the American Jewish Committee’s 2007 Judge Learned Hand Award, which was bestowed upon him for his outstanding leadership.
A resident of Miami, Florida since 1952, Mr. Hall is survived by his wife, Gail Meyers. They have four children: Michael Hall, Adam S. Hall, Hilary Azrael, and Kathryn A. Meyers.