Steptoe & Johnson

REPRESENTATIVE EXPERIENCE

• Lead counsel to manufacturer in putative class action alleging product defects; plaintiff withdrew class allegations and dismissed action against manufacturer following certification discovery
• 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

• The Best Lawyers in America®
• Super Lawyers®
• Judge John A. Field, Jr. American Inn of Court
• “Generation Next,” The State Journal 2007
• Graduated summa cum laude, Washington & Lee University
• Graduated cum laude, Harvard Law School

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

• Light, Randall L., and Williams, Kara Cunningham “Ethics Issues for In-house (and Out-house) Counsel,” 31 Energy & Mineral Law Institute 51 (2010)
• CLE Presenter, “Professional Responsibility Issues in Representing the Organizational Client,” June 2010, WVCLE Seminar, Charleston, WV
• CLE Presenter (with Randall Light), “Ethics Issues for In-house (and Out-house) Counsel,” May 2010, Energy & Mineral Law Foundation, 31st Annual Institute, Amelia Island, FL
• 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
• 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
• 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