Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP

IndustriesFood IndustryRetail and Consumer Products

PracticesProduct 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

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

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.

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

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