Meet Andrew
Andrew M. Larsen
Andrew Larsen is a senior associate at Joyner Law, where he focuses on serious criminal defense — felony defense, DUI and DWI-D, gun charges, drug offenses — alongside the firm’s traffic and reckless driving practice.
Andrew earned his Bachelor of Arts in History from Arizona State University in 2012 before coming to Virginia for law school at the University of Richmond School of Law, where he graduated in 2015. During law school, he served on the Trial Advocacy Board and interned at the Charlottesville-Albemarle Public Defender’s Office and the New Kent County Commonwealth’s Attorney’s Office. He was admitted to practice in Virginia in 2016.
Before joining Joyner Law in 2019, Andrew worked in private practice handling criminal and traffic defense. In the seven years since, his caseload has shifted further into serious criminal work. He is a member of the Virginia Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, and inside the firm he leads Client Services and Personnel Management.
Andrew’s clients know him. A serious criminal case unfolds over months — court dates, prosecutor negotiations, long stretches where the case is moving but the client can’t see it. Andrew is the attorney who keeps the client in it: takes the calls, explains what just happened, gives a straight answer about what’s coming.
The strategy in any given case starts with what the client actually wants out of it. What outcome matters most, what they’re trying to protect, what they can live with. The work that follows takes one of two directions. Some cases call for trial: working through the evidence, sorting out what the prosecution’s case rises and falls on, and thinking through where the case can break either way. Others call for mitigation: the goal shifts from acquittal to the shape of what comes after — what the sentence looks like, what stays on the record, what the case leaves the client to live with. Andrew runs the same approach on a routine traffic case as on a serious criminal one — the priorities that come out of the conversation are different, but the conversation that starts it is the same.
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The consultation is free, and the point of it isn’t to sell you on hiring us. It’s to talk through what you’re facing, give you an honest read on the case, and figure out — both of us — whether we’re the right firm for it. Either way, you’ll walk away knowing more about what you’re up against than when you called.