Ann Marie Mortimer and Roland M. Juarez Named Among 2019 Top Los Angeles Litigation & Trial Lawyers

Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP is pleased to announce that partners Ann Marie Mortimer and Roland M. Juarez were named to the “2019 Top Litigation & Trial Lawyers in Los Angeles” list by the Los Angeles Business Journal. The 50 attorneys on this list are selected for their willingness to “go to the proverbial mat to fight for their clients before judges and jury.”

As the founder and managing partner of the Los Angeles office, Mortimer co-heads Hunton Andrews Kurth’s commercial litigation practice and sits on the firm’s Executive Committee. She has become one of the premier class action litigation attorneys in the Los Angeles region and statewide, handling an impressive volume of complex, high-profile cases. A strategic problem solver focused on achieving business results in complex cases, Ann Marie is adept at translating technical and scientific evidence into plain English for clients. Some of the nation’s largest public and private companies turn to her to guide them through enterprise risk litigation, frequently raising novel issues originating in California and setting the stage for the rest of the country. Over the last few years, Mortimer has negotiated several favorable settlements for multiple clients facing eight-figure claims that have threatened to put their fundamental businesses in jeopardy. Her cases have increasingly involved data security incidents at some of the largest companies – she served as lead counsel in one of the largest data security incidents in history.

Juarez co-heads Hunton Andrews Kurth’s Unfair Competition and Information Protection Task Force and serves as the co-chair for the Minority Lawyers Subcommittee of the firm’s Diversity & Inclusion Committee. His leadership in workplace relations extends to the legal industry, where he co-chairs the Restrictive Covenants/Trade Secrets Subcommittee of the American Bar Association Section of Litigation Employment and Labor Relations Committee. Known for handling high-stakes labor and employment cases for some of California’s largest and most high-profile employers, Juarez has successfully defended clients against the most challenging claims facing employers in California and across the nation, securing impressive victories for his clients through innovative strategies – whether by obtaining a trial win for an advertising agency with major implications for the industry itself, obtaining a dismissal of an arduous H-1B visa wage case in the tech and aerospace industry, or finding a breakthrough in a case for a California aerospace giant.