Alexander C. Papandreou - Partner
Practice Areas
Casualty Litigation,
Complex Commercial
Litigation and Arbitration,
Environmental
Litigation,
Insurance Coverage,
Marine and Energy,
Personal Injury,
Subrogation and
Recovery,
Transactions and Contracts

Mr. Papandreou was born in 1967 and raised in
Athens, Greece and attended the University of Athens – School of Law,
where he received a LL.B. in 1988. After successfully completing the
mandatory two-year apprenticeship period and the required written and
oral portions of the Athens bar examination, Mr. Papandreou was licensed
to practice law in Greece (European Union) in 1991. Mr. Papandreou
received his U.S. legal education at Notre Dame Law School, where he
received his J.D. in 1994. He has been licensed to practice law in
Texas since 1994 and is admitted to practice before the Supreme Court of
the United States, the United States Courts of Appeals for the Fifth,
Eleventh, and D.C. Circuits, as well as the United States District
Courts for the Southern, Northern, Eastern, and Western Districts of
Texas.
Since moving to Houston in
1994, Mr. Papandreou has been focusing his practice in the areas of
admiralty/maritime and general commercial litigation and arbitration, as
well as personal injury, products liability, and complex civil
litigation law. He has successfully represented clients at the trial
and appellate levels in a wide array of cases litigated in both federal
and state courts of many jurisdictions including Texas, Louisiana,
California, Alabama, Mississippi, New York, Arkansas, Utah, and the
District of Columbia. Mr. Papandreou is the author of "Krebs v.
Rutgers: The Potential for Disclosure of Highly Confidential Personal
Information Renders Questionable the Use of Social Security Numbers as
Student Identification Numbers," 20 Journal of College & University Law
79 (1993) and has also served as a guest writer for the Express Daily
Financial Newspaper in Athens, Greece (1995-present). Mr. Papandreou
made a presentation at the 2006
SKULD P&I Club Piraeus Seminar on “Navigating the Shoals of U.S.
Maritime Litigation: A U.S. Lawyer’s Perspective on a Unique Legal
System.” He is a member of the American,
Federal, and Houston Bar Associations, the State Bar of Texas, the
Athens Bar Association, Proctor of the Maritime Law Association of the
United States and has served as Vice President and Member of the Board
of Directors of the Hellenic-American Chamber of Commerce of Texas. Mr.
Papandreou speaks Greek, English, French, German, and Italian.
Direct Dial: (713) 706-1942
Fax: (713) 953-9470
Email: apapandreou@leggefarrow.com

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