Elizabeth A. Alexander
Elizabeth Alexander
Nashville, TN 37219-2415
Nashville
Tennessee (TN)
Environmental Litigation
Consumer Law
Personal Injury Plaintiff: General
Profile
Ms. Alexander currently represents individuals, property owners, and business owners across the Gulf Coast in class action litigation against BP (formerly British Petroleum) and the other companies involved in drilling at the Deepwater Horizon oil rig. She is spearheading the firm's litigation against the Tennessee Valley Authority for a massive coal ash spill at TVA's Kingston, Tennessee Fossil Plant. The spill was one of the worst environmental disasters ever in the Southeast.
Elizabeth plays a leading role in the firm's litigation efforts to obtain justice for women who were injured after taking Yaz or Yasmin birth control pills. She has also represented workers and consumers who developed a lung disease called bronchiolitis obliterans, or chronic scarring of the airways, as a result of repeated exposure to diacetyl in manufacturing plants and microwave popcorn.
Selected To
Mid-South Super Lawyers 2011
Mid-South Rising Stars 2010
Mid-South Rising Stars 2009
Mid-South Rising Stars 2008
About Elizabeth Alexander
Admitted: 1998, Tennessee
Professional Webpage: www.lieffcabraser.com/bios/alexander.php
Honors and Awards:
- "Mid-South Super Lawyer", Super Lawyers, 2011; National Trial Lawyer's Top 100 Trial Lawyers, 2011; "Rising Stars", Super Lawyers, 2008-2010; "Lawdragon 500 New Stars" and "Lawdragon 3000 Leading Plaintiffs' Lawyers in America", Lawdragon, 2006-2007.
Bar/Professional Activity:
- American Bar Association (Labor and Employment Law Section Equal Employment Opportunity Committee, Co-Chair, Basics Committee 2005-2006; Chair of Internal Marketing and Mentoring Committee 2006-2007); Lawyers' Association for Women (Director, 2003-2005); Nashville Bar Association (Board of Directors, Young Lawyers Division); National Bar Association; National Employment Lawyers' Association; Tennessee Bar Association.
Scholarly Lectures and Writings:
- Editor, Tennessee Chapter of the ABA Survey of State Class Action Law (2003-2010); "Consumer Class Actions Against Financial Institutions", Lorman Education Services, July 2004; Panelist, National Consumer Law Center, Consumer Rights Litigation Conference, "Pleading Standards- the Impact of Twombly and Iqbal on Class Action Complaints."
Elizabeth A. Alexander:
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