The Recorder Recognizes Ann Marie Mortimer and Emily Burkhardt Vicente in 2023 California Legal Awards

Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP partners Ann Marie Mortimer and Emily Burkhardt Vicente have been recently honored by The Recorder at its “California Legal Awards” event. Mortimer was one of 30 lawyers recognized in the “Women Leaders in Tech Law” category, which honors the top women attorneys whose recent achievements have contributed to progress at technology companies and in the law. Vicente was named a finalist for the “Mentorship Award,” which recognizes the top attorneys statewide for their ongoing mentorship role and commitment to advancing young legal professionals.

Mortimer is founder and managing partner of the firm’s Los Angeles office, head of the firm’s Commercial Litigation practice and a member of its executive committee. A strategic problem solver and litigator focused on high-stakes cases, Mortimer focuses on complex commercial litigation including novel cybersecurity disputes and has attained precedent-setting results for global brands. Over the last year, she has won several dismissals of data breach class actions for high profile retail and financial clients. As legal regulation tries to keep pace with the acceleration of technology, Ann Marie is engaged in challenging class action and data breach cases critical to her clients at every stage of the information life cycle. With her cutting-edge cybersecurity class action work, she has earned recognition as Top Cyber Lawyer (Daily Journal 2022, 2020) and led her team to earn a Top Defense Verdict recognition (Daily Journal 2022), for a precedent-setting CCPA verdict in California. She has also been named MVP of the Year for Cybersecurity & Privacy two years in a row by Law360 (2020-2021).

Co-chair of the firm’s labor and employment team, Vicente is an accomplished trial lawyer who has defended some of the largest Fortune 100 companies in high-stakes employment and wage-hour litigation and is experienced in taking hybrid class and collective action cases to jury trial. She also has a robust unfair competition, misappropriation, and employee raiding practice. In addition to her litigation practice, Vicente helps employers develop forward-thinking compliance practices that reduce wage and hour disputes and help mitigate other employment-related risks while keeping her client’s business goals firmly in mind. She regularly counsels clients on employment-related matters, including design and implementation of diversity and inclusion programs, harassment and discrimination investigations, “me too” issues, fair-pay compliance, worker classifications, negotiation of employment contracts, and the use and implementation of artificial intelligence (AI) and emerging technology in the workplace. Vicente also serves as co-chair of the firm’s diversity & inclusion committee.

Mortimer and Vicente, along with all other nominees, were honored at The Recorder’s California Legal Awards event on Nov. 2.