“Whether it’s a trial, class action, investigation, or product release, my clients benefit from my broad commercial litigation experience.
Alexis Amezcua is a Litigation partner with extensive experience in class actions and complex commercial litigation.
Alexis is a member of Morrison Foerster’s Complex Litigation + Advisement Group, representing individuals, board members, and innovative companies involved in high-stakes litigation. Her clients often call her first, whether to lead a global litigation team, formulate a crisis management strategy, or respond to government and regulatory inquiries.
Alexis works in concert with clients—many of whom are household names—to ensure their goals are met both efficiently and practically. She understands their businesses and develops holistic approaches with each client’s needs in mind, first and foremost.
Working alongside her clients, Alexis routinely leads and develops risk assessments and trial strategies with subject matter leaders across legal, financial, and technical teams throughout the U.S. and internationally. Her work frequently focuses on issues including, but not limited to:
- Breach of contract matters
- Complex consumer class actions
- Congressional inquiries and testimony
- Employment disputes
- False advertising cases
- Federal banking law
- Multidistrict litigation
- Privacy matters
- Product advertising, compliance, liability, and recalls
- Trade secret theft
- Unfair competition
- Wrongful death
- Wrongful termination
She represents both plaintiffs and defendants, and her practice includes substantive trial experience in both state and federal court, as well as arbitration proceedings. Her clients include:
- Leading global tech and Fortune 500 companies
- International product manufacturers
- National retailers
- Online and social media platforms
- Major financial institutions
- Small businesses in various industries, including tech startups and smaller brick-and-mortar resellers
- Municipalities
- Individuals
A leader within the legal industry and the firm, Alexis is a member of the firm’s Executive Committee and has an active role in the firm’s pro bono efforts, recently representing individuals across a variety of reproductive health, asylum, police brutality, and due process rights matters. She was also part of the trial team that sought mental health care for veterans in the highly publicized Veterans for Common Sense v. Peake.
Alexis has demonstrated a longstanding commitment to diversity & inclusion as a founding member of MoFo’s Latinx and Women of Color affinity groups. She serves as co-chair of the firm’s Diversity Strategy Committee and served as the former hiring partner and Litigation Department chair for the San Francisco office. She is involved in the local community and is a former board member of the Bar Association of San Francisco. Alexis is vice president and president-elect for California ChangeLawyers, an organization focused on diversifying California’s legal profession.
Experience
Following securing the favorable dismissal and settlement of a lawsuit filed by the Guidiville Rancheria of California and Upstream Point Molate alleging breach of contract and other claims against the City of Richmond related to a development project at Point Molate, also successfully defeated repeated motions for preliminary injunction and a request for temporary restraining order filed by Richmond residents who opposed the settlement terms. Guidiville and Upstream sought more than $750 million in costs and lost profits from the City.
Won a defense verdict in a $110 million claim against VMWare on allegations of copyright infringement and breach of a license agreement for "BIOS" software.
Second-chaired the defense at arbitration of breach of contract and wrongful termination claims, which resulted in a settlement that was a fraction of the plaintiff’s demand.
Defended international manufacturer against product defect claims alleging a nationwide class and nearly 50 state subclasses, which resulted in significantly narrowing the claims and repeatedly defeating class certification.
Succeeded in narrowing unfair competition and false advertising claims, alleging that processing speed of product was misrepresented, and advised on a strategy that resulted in a complete walk-away, with prejudice, by the plaintiffs.
Represented a defendant in a class action alleging violation of California’s Automatic Renewal Law, significantly narrowing the class and available damages, and resulting in a settlement of the claims.
Conducted an internal investigation of a major financial institution regarding high-profile allegations of violation of the Servicemembers Civil Relief Act. She also advised on Congressional testimony and government inquiries, and defended numerous related individual and class actions, which resulted in a favorable settlement of some and complete dismissal and win of others.
Defended manufacturers and retailers of an over-the-counter supplement in personal injury and false advertising and unfair competition class action litigation in numerous states and in a federal multidistrict litigation. The action required extraordinary coordination between multiple defendants and resulted in an omnibus settlement in favor of the defendants.