Los Angeles Business Journal Lists Two Hunton Andrews Kurth Partners Among 2019 Most Influential Women Attorneys

Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP is pleased to announce that Ann Marie Mortimer and Michele Beilke were named to the “2019 Most Influential Women Attorneys” list by the Los Angeles Business Journal.

The 2019 list recognizes 75 female lawyers chosen by the Los Angeles Business Journal for their “exceptional legal skill across the full spectrum of responsibility; exemplary leadership, as evidenced by the highest professional and ethical standards; and for contributions to the Los Angeles community at large.”

With an outstanding track record of more than 25 years of courtroom success, Mortimer has handled an impressive volume of complex, high-profile cases involving cutting-edge class actions and multi-district litigation. She co-heads Hunton Andrews Kurth’s commercial litigation practice, is the founder and managing partner of the Los Angeles office, and sits on the firm’s Executive Committee. Her cases have increasingly involved data breaches of some of the largest companies – she served as lead counsel in one of the largest data security incidents in history. Her cross-disciplinary practice includes complex business and class action consumer claims litigation experience, as well as environmental, CERCLA and toxic tort multi-party litigation.

Beilke, partner in the firm’s labor and employment group, has more than two decades of experience representing employers in California. Her practice focuses on the defense of state and national wage-and-hour class and collective actions, and single- and multi-plaintiff discrimination and harassment claims in state and federal courts. She has successfully tried numerous cases to verdict in both state and federal court and in arbitration. She recently won a dispositive pretrial judgment on behalf of a client, averting a PAGA (Private Attorneys General Act of 2004) putative class action – a rarity in the state of California. This win was selected as a runner-up in The American Lawyer Litigation Daily’s “Litigator of the Week” last year.