Ms Alexandra Cunningham > Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP > Richmond, United States > Lawyer Profile

Ms Alexandra Cunningham

+1 804.787.8087 [email protected] View profile

Work Department

Industries
Food Industry
Retail and Consumer Products

Practices
Product Liability and Mass Tort Litigation, Product Safety and Regulatory Compliance, PFAS Interdisciplinary Team, Retail and Consumer Products Litigation, Class Action, Multidistrict Litigation, Litigation, Asbestos Litigation, Benzene Litigation, Glyphosate Litigation, Medical Device and Pharmaceutical Litigation, Silica Litigation, COVID-19 Litigation, Chemicals, Products and Hazardous Materials

Position

Partner, Co-head of the firm’s Litigation Team

Career

Ms. Cunningham is head of Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP’s litigation team and formerly led the firm’s products liability and mass tort litigation practice group. A nationally recognized product liability and toxic tort lawyer, she has been named a “Litigation Trailblazer” by the National Law Journal, recognized as runner-up in The American Lawyer’s “Litigator of the Week” feature, and selected as an Influential Woman of Law, among other accolades. Ms. Cunningham represents clients in complex litigation, with a focus on product liability, mass tort and toxic tort and environmental litigation, including successfully defending catastrophic injury and death claims; asbestos, benzene, formaldehyde, hydrogen sulfide, solvent and silica-related premises and product liability claims; large-scale environmental toxin and exposure claims, involving PFAS, PAHs, fluorides, coal combustion residuals and hexavalent chromium; and claims of bacterial contamination in food and beverage products. She also advises on legal issues related to COVID-19 and defends companies in COVID-19 litigation. Ms. Cunningham is admitted to practice in Virginia, Georgia, New York, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia, and before the federal courts in those jurisdictions and many others. She has appeared as trial counsel in courts nationwide, and has led numerous appeals. Ms. Cunningham has also led arbitrations before the International Chamber of Commerce and American Arbitration Association.

Memberships

Admitted to the Georgia, New York, Pennsylvania, Virginia and West Virginia State Bars

Education

• JD, Emory University School of Law, with high honors, Managing Editor, Emory Law Journal, Elected to Order of the Coif, 1999
• BA, Psychology, University of Virginia, 1996