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The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
B.A. in Economics, Phi Beta Kappa, Morehead-Cain Scholar
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New York University School of Law
J.D., Order of the Coif, Root-Tilden-Kern Scholar
André Bicalho Ceccotti
Education
Bar Admissions
- North Carolina
- U.S. District Court, WDNC
- U.S. District Court, EDNC
Affiliations
- Mecklenburg County Criminal Defense Lawyers’ Association
- North Carolina Advocates for Justice
- National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers
André Bicalho Ceccotti
André Ceccotti is an anti-racist lawyer who believes the criminal legal system is too often a misnomer for what is, in fact, a racial punishment system designed to uphold white supremacy. His unbending moral compass brought him to Pfeiffer Rudolf, where he was awarded a fellowship to represent plaintiff-exonerees in civil rights suits against the law enforcement officers and municipalities responsible for his clients’ wrongful arrests, prosecutions, and/or convictions.
Prior to joining Pfeiffer Rudolf, André served as an Assistant Public Defender at the Mecklenburg County Public Defender’s Office in Charlotte, NC. Dozens of trials, hundreds of plea negotiations, and daily jail visits taught him that confronting injustice is painful—yet joyful.
André’s résumé is curiously like that of former Chief Justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court Jim Exum—one his favorite jurists. Both graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill as Morehead-Cain Scholars and went on to attend New York University School of Law as Root-Tilden-Kern Scholars.
Before law school, André worked with the Community Empowerment Fund, Self-Help Credit Union, and the Legal Aid of North Carolina reforming public and private institutions that fail to respond with flexibility and nuance to the needs, desires, and circumstances of those who are most dramatically affected by inequalities of gender, race, and class.
To cope with the vicarious trauma that is innate in his line of work, André enjoys reading speculative fiction, going on runs, and thrifting clothes in his free time. He is originally from Belo Horizonte, Brazil, and is fluent in Portuguese, Spanish, and Italian.
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