ALEXANDRA CUNNINGHAM | Partner and head of litigation team, Hunton Andrews Kurth

Alexandra Cunningham’s litigation and risk management practice focuses on product liability, toxic tort and environmental litigation, food contamination claims, and wrongful death and personal injury defense, including mass torts, class actions and multidistrict litigation. She defends Fortune 500 companies in high-stakes litigation nationally and has led arbitrations before the International Chamber of Commerce and the American Arbitration Association. She also has led and argued multiple appeals before the Supreme Court of Virginia.

Additionally, Cunningham provides strategic pre-market litigation risk and avoidance advice to product, equipment and chemical manufacturers. She also speaks and writes about PFAS’ environmental risk and other topics.
As head of the litigation team at Hunton Andrews Kurth, Cunningham leads more than 250 attorneys across offices nationally and worldwide. Before becoming team head, she was co-head of the firm’s product liability and mass tort litigation practice group.

Cunningham’s expertise has earned her numerous recognitions including Virginia Lawyers Weekly naming her on a list of “Go To Lawyers” for negligence law in 2024. In August, she was named to the Best Lawyers in America 2026 list. The Virginia Law Foundation inducted her as a fellow in 2021.

After earning a degree in psychology at the University of Virginia, Cunningham completed her law degree at Emory University, where she served as managing editor of the Emory Law Journal. In 1999, she was elected to the Order of the Coif, an honorary scholastic society for law students.

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