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Alexandra Cunningham

Hunton Andrews Kurth

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Position: Partner
Rating:
  • Litigation Star
Practice Areas:
Environmental
Product liability
Toxic tort
Jurisdictions:
Biography
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.

Key practice areas

  • Class action
  • Environmental
  • Product liability and recall
Education / Alumni

  • JD, Emory University School of Law (1999)
  • BA, University of Virginia (1996)
Bar Admissions

  • Georgia
  • New York
  • Pennsylvania
  • Virginia
  • West Virginia
Address:
Riverfront Plaza, East Tower, 951 East Byrd Street
Richmond, Virginia, 23219
United States
Tel:+1 804 787 8087 Email:Contact this practitioner Website:alexandra-cunningham