WILL
ANDERSON

Currently Law Clerk and Business Development Manager at Anderson and Associates and J.D. Candidate at Brooklyn Law School, Mr. Anderson aims to become a preeminent legal advisor in the interwoven areas of international, business, and immigration law.

Mr. Anderson is dedicated to generating value by creating competitive legal advantages for his clients.  Having founded, owned, or actively managed several businesses, non-profits, and collaborative projects, and consulted leaders of dozens of others, he believes competitive strategy and value creation are major keys to business success.  He is determined to help business leaders yield profitable outcomes through mutual collaboration.

Mr. Anderson enjoys working with entrepreneurs, executives, directors, shareholders, and leaders of businesses and nonprofits.  He has experienced the good, the bad, and the ugly of business management, instilling in him a business viewpoint that is both pragmatic and hopeful.  Mr. Anderson takes great joy in working with teams, views himself as a business strategist, and tries to approach tasks in a methodical, thoughtful, and detailed manner.  He also approaches projects with a creative mind, having formally studied poetry, art, and theology prior to his careers in ministry, business, and law.  In his nontraditional path to becoming a lawyer, his well of leadership experiences is one of his best assets, giving him a unique, empathetic perspective as he works with organizational representatives.  

He has provided integral leadership and support on several critical legal matters for clients.  He assisted in the transactional closing process for a variety of business deals including an international e-commerce M&A, multiple real estate headquarters acquisitions, and several sales-related contract negotiations.  He successfully secured a full dismissal of RICO and breach of contract claims in federal court on behalf of e-commerce clients.  He has experience in media-related litigation including defamation, first amendment, and common-law freedom of the press issues at the federal and appellate levels.  He has also participated in EB-5 immigrant investor litigation on behalf of Asian investors seeking damages over failed U.S. investments.  He has worked on other complex immigration matters, advising a nonprofit that works with Nobel Peace Prize winners on its executive director’s immigration from Canada to the U.S.; gaining approval for several religious visa pastors and workers facing requests for evidence from the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services; and working on petitions for outstanding individuals in technology and the arts.

Mr. Anderson’s capabilities span a wide array of industries: legal, media, e-commerce, private investment, retail, finance, international trade, non-profit, and technology.  His skills include orating, writing, analysis, researching, management, business intelligence, web design and IT management, social media and advertising campaign creation, sales, culture building, vision crafting, and data analytics.

Straight out of college, Mr. Anderson was tapped for leadership roles.  He has managed in various leadership capacities, at times, concurrently, as CEO, President, Executive Director, Chairman, and Trustee.  His work drove transformative change in many of the organizations in which he served.  He was Publisher at The Christian Post and CEO of its global media network, which he and his team grew from a few thousand views per month to over 4,000,000 U.S. monthly unique visitors according to Comscore (with many millions more globally) and over 10,000,000 social media followers.  The network grew to encompass the Religion/Spirituality category-leading websites in the U.S., U.K., China, Korea, and Japan, with affiliates in dozens of other countries and 100 websites in total.  The influential nature of media opened doors for him to engage in many high-level humanitarian discussions, including with an evangelical delegation at the United Nations to address critical global priorities, and with leaders of the Religious Liberty Partnership in Oxford to advance universal human rights—especially freedom of religion.  He also served on the board of Olivet University, which grew during his board tenure from a single-building commuter campus in San Francisco into a residential institution with over 10 accredited multi-site campuses nationwide and more around the world.  Early in his career, he served as Executive Director of Apostolos Missions International, a Christian campus ministry and missions fellowship with chapters at top universities around the world.  The majority of the organizations he has worked with over the years are international in reach, and he is familiar in working together with business and ministry leaders from many cultures across all continents.

Now a 3L law student at Brooklyn Law School, he received numerous awards in his first two years, including six CALI Awards for Academic Excellence, awarded to the top scorer in each respective class of Contracts I, Legal Process I, Civil Procedure I & II, Property I, and the specialty course, Immigration and Work.  He is an International Business Law Fellow at the Dennis J. Block Center for the Study of International Business Law as well as Executive Articles Editor at the Brooklyn Journal of International Law.  His Journal paper was titled “Global Legal Engagement for International Organizations Amidst Competing Worldwide Systems” and called for multilayered engagement by U.S. businesses in China spanning the realms of ideology, policy, and law.  He is a student member of the International Bar Association, the American Immigration Lawyers Association, and the American Bar Association International Law Section.

Mr. Anderson has a heart for philanthropy and his service work has included mentoring middle school, high school, and college students; conceptualizing and co-founding the law firm’s award-winning pro bono program; volunteering on non-profit boards; appearing at the United Nations; working with U.S. Presidential advisors; and launching a human rights coalition focused on international religious freedom.  He is a pastoral team member and small group volunteer at his church.

Mr. Anderson resides in Manhattan with his wife, Yen-Yi, and two daughters, Dove and Daisy.  He joined Anderson and Associates in March, 2020, after successes in his business career, to assist as the growing firm’s Business Development Manager.  Mr. Anderson is an entrepreneurial law student with a competitive mindset who is dedicated to passionately pouring his efforts into client matters and persistently fighting for client goals.

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New York

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