Andrew Gross brought his significant real estate practice to CF+W with whom he has had a career-long business relationship because of its like practice areas. Andrew has more than thirty years of experience in real property law including such areas such as: commercial and residential landlord-tenant matters; drafting and reviewing commercial real estate leases; ejectment actions; sheriff sales; tax sales; quiet title matters; adverse possession; easements and boundary disputes; tax assessment appeals; and failure to disclose cases.
Andrew graduated from the Pennsylvania State University with a BA degree in History in 1987 and graduated from American University Washington College of Law in 1990.
Andrew served as a landlord-tenant arbitrator in the Allegheny Court of Common Pleas for thirty-two years. Andrew has extensive litigation experience in the Courts of Common Pleas throughout Western Pennsylvania and in appellate matters before the Superior Court of Pennsylvania. Andrew has practiced extensively in the US Bankruptcy Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania and the US District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania.
Some of Andrew’s noteworthy cases are as follows:
- Dorothy Graham v. New Homestead Development Company, GD-22-015480 – One of the first Court decisions to address the new ten (10) year statute of limitations for adverse possession, pursuant to 42 Pa. C.S.A. § 5527.1, and the effect of a sheriff’s sale on adverse possession claims.
- Ashley Toth v. Northwest Savings Bank, GD-12-008014 – A class action case against Northwest Savings Bank for their overdraft fee policy resulting in a settlement of $2,350,000.00.
- Estate of Donald Thomas Schaefer, Deceased, No. 1431 of 2019. An appeal to the Superior Court at In Re Schaefer, 300 A.3d 1013 (Pa. Super. Ct. 2023), wherein the Court ruled that the surviving spouse waived her rights to an IRA by signing a prenuptial agreement. This was a matter of first impression in Pennsylvania.
Andrew, and his wife Tracy, reside in the City of Pittsburgh.
Bar Admissions:
- Pennsylvania Supreme Court
- United States Bankruptcy Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania
- United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania
- United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
- State of Arizona
Professional Memberships
- Allegheny County Bar Association
- Arizona Bar Association