Los Angeles Times Honors Two Hunton Andrews Kurth Partners for Business of Law

Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP is pleased to announce that partners Ann Marie Mortimer and Roland Juarez were selected to an elite group of 2023 visionaries in the Business of Law: Updates, Trends & Visionaries magazine produced by the Los Angeles Times.

The annual publication features “California-licensed in-house counsel and firm lawyers who are impacting change… and have demonstrated noteworthy success and accomplishments during the last 24 months.” The Los Angeles Times editorial team compiled the list of honorees based on nominations and then recognized the winners in their June 4 issue.

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 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 cybersecurity 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.

A partner in the firm’s labor and employment practice, Juarez handles high-stakes employment cases with an innovative approach. His experience includes class actions, PAGA, non-compete, non-solicitation and employee raiding cases, discrimination, harassment, disability, wage and hour, and Title III website accessibility cases. He has secured numerous trial and arbitration wins in wage and hour cases and various discrimination cases, including precedent-setting wins in several industries. Juarez is a contributing author of the firm’s Employment & Labor Perspectives blog and serves as co-head of the firm’s Unfair Competition and Information Protection Task Force.

All finalists and winners, including Mortimer and Juarez, will be profiled in the Business of Law Magazine.