Laura B. Hunt

• Representing a national health care company in a putative data breach class action arising from a cyberattack that compromised personal and health information.
• Won a personal jurisdiction challenge on behalf of a multibillion-dollar international building products conglomerate and their domestic subsidiary, and represented their Texas subsidiary in enforcing noncompete obligations of a former employee, while obtaining the dismissal of $450 million in counterclaims.
• Represented a pro bono client who had been unconstitutionally convicted by a non-unanimous jury in Louisiana, securing a vacation of his conviction and obtaining his release after more than 35 years in prison.
• Secured a favorable settlement in a wrongful death suit in federal court suit for a large national manufacturing company.
• Obtained the complete dismissal and an award of attorneys’ fees under the Texas Citizens Participation Act for a major telecommunications provider in a malicious prosecution matter.
• Representing a national health care insurer and numerous health plans in a federal court case related to coverage and payment issues.
• Submitted an amicus curiae brief on behalf of the preeminent legal scholar to the United States Supreme Court in a case addressing civil rights implications of child protective services investigations.
• Represented the managers of a water transfer services company against contractual, fraud, and termination claims that resulted in a complete dismissal with no liability for the client.
• Represented a large oil and gas company in a multimillion dollar lease termination dispute in the Midland Basin resulting in a favorable settlement.
• Represented an oil and gas company in securing the title to a tract that was subject to multiple states’ law.
• Represented a pro bono client in a deceptive trade practices action related to the purchase of a defective vehicle.

Laura Hunt is a senior associate in the Litigation & Trial Practice Group. She focuses her practice on commercial litigation, representing entities and managers in contract, warranty, trade secret misappropriation, and employment disputes, and oil and gas clients in lease termination, royalty litigation, and trespass to try title suits.

Before joining Alston & Bird, Laura served as a law clerk for the Hon. David S. Morales in the Southern District of Texas Corpus Christi Division. She worked on cases involving employment discrimination, ERISA claims, civil rights violations, class actions, insurance disputes, and criminal law. Laura also served as a judicial intern to Hon. Thomas B. Griffith, U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.

Laura earned her J.D., cum laude, from Brigham Young University J. Reuben Clark Law School, where she served as an associate editor for the BYU Law Review and was president of the Government & Politics Legal Society. Laura received her B.A. in political science from Montana State University – Billings.

Bar Admissions

• Texas

Education

• Brigham Young University (J.D., 2019)
• Montana State University – Billings (B.A., 2012)

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