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

RIVERFRONT PLAZA, EAST TOWER
951 EAST BYRD STREET
RICHMOND, VA 23219
VIRGINIA
United States
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Ms Alexandra Cunningham

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, Head of the firm’s Litigation Team
Career
Ms. Cunningham is head of Hunton’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. 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
Lawyer Rankings
United States > Dispute resolution > Product liability, mass tort and class action - defense: toxic tort
Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP combines its strengths in product liability litigation and in trial settings to defend against a variety of tort litigations ranging from multi-plaintiff suits, to multidistrict litigation and class actions. In the toxic torts space, trial lawyers have litigated claims involving allegations of cancer, neurological damages and long-latency diseases, while in PFAS litigation, Richmond’s Alexandra Cunningham and Boston-based Daniel Stefany are active in litigating PFAS cases around the country in both individual claims and class actions often involving environmental liability and product liability. Cunningham is also active in defending industrial clients in asbestos litigation, having been involved in claims dealing with all forms of asbestos filters. Georgia Lucier in Houston and Tom Waskom in Los Angeles and Richmond are both key names.
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Media, technology and telecoms > Cyber law (including data privacy and data protection)
- Environment > Environment: regulatory
- Industry focus > Education
Firm Rankings
- Insurance > Advice to policyholders
- Environment > Environment: litigation
- Media, technology and telecoms > Outsourcing
- Finance > Project finance
- Real estate > Real estate
- Real estate > Real estate finance
- Finance > Structured finance: securitization
- Finance > Capital markets: debt offerings
- Finance > Capital markets: debt offerings
- Energy > Energy regulation: electric power
- Energy > Energy transactions: electric power
- Energy > Energy transactions: oil and gas
- Finance > Fintech
- Labor and employment > Immigration
- Miami Elite > International corporate and M&A
- Labor and employment > Labor-management relations
- M&A/corporate and commercial > M&A: middle-market ($500m-999m)
- Dispute resolution > Product liability, mass tort and class action - defense: toxic tort
- Real estate > Real estate investment trusts (REITs)
- Energy > Renewable/alternative power
- Intellectual property > Trademarks: litigation
- Intellectual property > Trademarks: non-contentious (including prosecution, portfolio management and licensing)
- Finance > Capital markets: equity offerings
- Energy > Energy litigation: oil and gas
- Energy > Energy regulation: oil and gas
- Labor and employment > Labor and employment disputes (including collective actions)
- Media, technology and telecoms > Technology transactions
- Tax > US taxes: non-contentious
- Labor and employment > Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: design
- Finance > Restructuring (including bankruptcy): corporate
- Finance > Capital markets: high-yield debt offerings
- Intellectual property > Patents: licensing
- Industry focus > Education
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Venture capital and emerging companies