Andrew Lothian was educated in Perthshire, Scotland. He attended Edinburgh University, graduating LL.B in 1988 and Dip LP (Diploma in Legal Practice) in 1989.

In 1990 Andrew was enrolled as a Solicitor in Scotland.

For the first nine years of his practice as a Solicitor, Andrew specialised in litigation and dispute resolution. During this period he handled Scotland's first domain name dispute under the Scottish Commercial Court Rules. The case gave rise to an interim Interdict which resulted in a suspension of delegation of a .UK domain name.

This early involvement in a domain name dispute gave Andrew a long-term interest in the Domain Name System and ultimately led to his founding Demys Limited.

While still in full time legal practice Andrew developed an e-law unit which was one of the earliest of its kind in Scotland. During this period he worked with IBM and the Lotus User Group on a series of international briefings, addressing technology users around the world on the benefits and the legal issues of conducting business electronically.  Between 1999 and 2004 Andrew served as Executive Consultant and latterly Partner with Scottish top ten law firm Henderson Boyd Jackson WS.

In 1999 Andrew founded Internet Intellectual Property Managers Demys Limited. The company provides expert professional advice on domain names and Internet policy and governance issues from a technical and legal perspective and manages corporate domain name portfolios for UK and international organisations. Andrew is Demys' Chief Executive and company solicitor.

Through Demys Andrew advises on high-level domain name issues including specific advice on international domain name strategies both pre and post-brand launch, technical problem-solving, and mediation of, or unilateral advice on, domain name disputes. Clients of the company include a UK-based international airline, a leisure industry conglomerate and a major financial institution.  Andrew has also been appointed as independent adviser in a range of domain disputes of both national and international interest.

During Demys' first year of trading Andrew conducted the world's then sixth largest domain name acquisition of a two character dot-com name in a transatlantic deal.

In addition to being a member of the Nominet DRS panel, Andrew serves as a panellist for ICANN's Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy on the World Intellectual Property Organization's panel and as a panellist on the Czech Arbitration Court's .eu ADR panel.

When he is not being a domain name adviser, Andrew enjoys working with music technology in his home-based recording studio and has engineered and played on songs which have reached the top ten of the European Christian Chart.