Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP is pleased to announce that partners Ann Marie Mortimer and Emily Burkhardt Vicente were selected to an elite group of visionaries in the Business of Law: Updates, Trends & 2024 Visionaries magazine produced by the Los Angeles Times B2B Publishing.

The annual publication features “the very best” of the submitted nominees, based on criteria including average success rate, settlements and verdicts won in the last three years, leadership positions within the firm and community, and board affiliations and recognitions.

Head of the firm’s commercial litigation practice and founder and managing partner of the Los Angeles office, Mortimer is well-versed in advising high-profile clients on complex commercial litigation including data protection and compliance with regulatory mandates on privacy and data security. She was the lead lawyer defending an internet service provider in a class action lawsuit that has been deemed the largest data breach in history and was featured as lead counsel on one of the Daily Journal’s Top Defense Verdicts in California for her representation of one of the largest American multinational big box retailers in a class action lawsuit involving an alleged data privacy breach and its precedent-setting decision was one of the first dismissals of a California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) claim on the merits. Mortimer’s leadership in complex commercial litigation extends to model leadership within her firm and the community as one of only a handful of female managing partners in California and a member of the firm’s executive committee.

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.

Profiles for all finalists and winners, including Mortimer and Vicente, are featured in the Business of Law Magazine.