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Kara Cunningham Williams

Education

  • J.D. Harvard Law School
    B.A. Washington & Lee University

Bar Admissions

  • District of Columbia
  • West Virginia


Kara Cunningham Williams
Member

Kara Cunningham Williams
Member

Kara Cunningham Williams focuses her practice in the areas of complex commercial, banking, and consumer protection disputes, including class action defense.

REPRESENTATIVE EXPERIENCE

  • Trial counsel to national nursing home chain in contested proceeding to obtain administrative approval of sale of private equity; favorable decision helped allow transaction to close
  • Counsel to major loan servicer in statewide consumer class action; appellate court rejected class efforts to impose new obligations on creditors and trustees, and established new syllabus points confirming creditors' rights in non-judicial foreclosures
  • Lead trial counsel to interstate pipeline company in complex contractual disputes with system co-owner; agency awarded injunctive relief and ordered refunds
  • Lead counsel to lender in complicated commercial collection matter; lender received significant recovery following summary judgment ruling and post-judgment enforcement action

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

  • 1999
    Steptoe & Johnson
  • 1995-1999
    Hunton & Williams LLP
  • 1993-1994
    Judicial Clerk, Supreme Judicial Court of Maine

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS / AWARDS

  • Graduated summa cum laude, Washington & Lee University
  • Graduated cum laude, Harvard Law School
  • “Generation Next,” The State Journal 2007
  • The Best Lawyers in America®

INDUSTRY / CIVIC MEMBERSHIPS

  • Leadership West Virginia, Class of 2001
  • Chair, Alumni Admission Program and Board of Directors, Charleston WV Chapter, Washington & Lee University Alumni Association
  • First Vice President and Board of Directors, YWCA of Charleston

PUBLICATIONS / SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS

  • Range, J.J. & Cunningham, K.L., 1998, “Rethinking the Fiduciary Exception to the Attorney-Client Privilege in Light of Varity Corporation v. Howe,” 10 Benefits Law Journal 25
  • Range, J.J. & Cunningham, K.L., 1997, “Rethinking the Fiduciary Exception to the Attorney-Client Privilege – A Postscript,” 11 Benefits Law Journal 69
  • Author and CLE Speaker, “Hot Topics in Commercial Litigation,” Sections on Business Torts, Contribution and Indemnification, and Corporate Governance Disputes June 2002, PESI Seminar, Charleston and Morgantown, WV
  • CLE Presenter, “Ethics Issues Affecting Corporate Counsel,” October 2005, NiSource Legal Department, Charleston, WV
  • Presenter, “Product Liability & Doing Business in the U.S.,” April 2007, Council of America States in Europe/WV Development Office Seminar, United Kingdom