Daily Journal Names Shannon S. Broome and Ann Marie Mortimer Among 2022 Top Women Lawyers in California

Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP is pleased to announce that partners Shannon S. Broome and Ann Marie Mortimer have been recognized among the 2022 Top Women Lawyers in California by the Daily Journal. This coveted, West Coast-ranking highlights just 100 female lawyers practicing and barred in California, who have made a difference to their clients, their firms and their profession during this unprecedented year.

Broome is the managing partner of the San Francisco office, leads the California Environmental practice, and co-leads the firm’s Environmental, Social and Governance practice. She is frequently sought by Fortune 50 energy and manufacturing companies for her litigation and negotiation skills and has nearly 30 years of experience challenging and defending EPA and California regulations, defending enforcement actions before federal, state, and appellate courts and agencies, and obtaining complex permits from federal and state agencies. Broome was recognized this year in particular for her leadership in representing the Texas Oil and Gas Association in regards to the Biden administration’s proposed methane emissions regulation changes as well as for her successful defense of a major corporation’s plant expansion in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. This is the sixth time that Broome has been selected among the Daily Journal’s Top Women Lawyers.

As the founder and managing partner of Hunton Andrews Kurth’s Los Angeles office and head of the firm’s Commercial Litigation practice, Mortimer is an accomplished litigator and a strategic problem solver focused on achieving positive business results in complex cases. She is at the forefront of novel cybersecurity litigation threatening the fundamental business of global brands. She has first-chaired high-profile cases to resolution and her ability to decode technical allegations into common-sense themes is among the reasons clients return to her repeatedly to assist with their most complex class action, commercial and data breach cases. Mortimer has handled and successfully resolved major cases for multiple clients, including a big box retailer in one of the first alleged California Consumer Privacy Act actions, earning a spot as one of the Top Defense Verdicts in California in 2021 as recognized by the Daily Journal in 2022, and Yahoo! (now Verizon), closing the chapter in what has been reported as the largest data breach in history with a highly favorable settlement. Mortimer is firmly established as a go-to litigation attorney when clients face significant data breaches. In addition to this being the fourth time the Daily Journal has recognized her among their Top Women Lawyers, Mortimer was recently named a Top Cyber Lawyer in California by the Daily Journal and a MVP in Cybersecurity & Privacy by Law360.

Read the full list of Top Women Lawyers, Daily Journal, May 18, 2022.