Andrew D. "Drew" Downing is a partner in Rhodes Hieronymus who specializes in insurance defense, medical negligence, products liability receiverships and liquidation, oil and gas, litigation involving Workers' Compensation and employment, insurance, and complex commercial matters, construction law and vaccine injury litigation before the Court of Federal Claims.

Drew earned his Bachelor of Arts degree from Rice University and his Juris Doctor from the University of Tulsa, where he was a merit scholarship winner. He authored: "The Oklahoma Workers' Compensation Act and Daubert," Vol. 77, No. 27, Oklahoma Bar Journal (10/7/2006) for which Drew won the 2006 Maurice Merrill Golden Quill Award; "Oklahoma Employers Beware: The Rock and a Hard Place Dilemma, "Vol. 72, No. 21, Oklahoma Bar Journal (7/14/01); "Performing Factual Investigations," TALA Times, October, 1999; "Arbitrator Immunity in Oklahoma," Insurance Defense Bulletin, Summer 1997. He is an adjunct faculty member at the University of Tulsa. He is a member of the Oklahoma Association of Defense Counsel, the Advisory Board of the University of Tulsa Division of Continuing Education, and the Tulsa County, Oklahoma, Federal and American Bar Associations.

Awards:
2006 Maurice Merrill Golden Quill Award

Presentations:
The Governments Civil Litigation Alternative for Vaccine Related Injuries – The Vaccine Injury Compensation Program.
Arising Out of and In the Course of Employment.
Oklahoma Employers Beware: The Rock and a Hard Place Dilemma.
The Interplay between FMLA and the Workers Compensation Act.
Americans with Disabilities Act.
Retaliatory Discharge in the Context of Workers Compensation: State and Federal Approaches.
A Step-by-Step Guide to Choice of Law Issues in Insurance Coverage and Bad Faith Cases.
The Employees Right to Privacy in the Workplace.