Alexandra Fernandez is a results-driven commercial litigator with almost 20 years of experience representing global, Fortune 500, mid-sized businesses, and high-net-worth individuals across diverse industries in complex business disputes. She is recognized for excellence in both written and oral advocacy and for developing case strategy. She has extensive success in managing high-stakes litigation, leading legal teams, negotiating worthwhile settlements, and delivering favorable outcomes in state and federal courts and through alternative dispute resolution.
Since joining the firm in 2025, Alexandra has applied her passion for learning and experience navigating legal issues untested by the courts to her work in generative AI class actions. These novel, cutting-edge cases are on behalf of classes of artists, coders, and authors who allege their creative work is being illegally appropriated by defendants’ artificial intelligence and machine learning technology without consent, credit, compensation, or transparency.
Prior to joining the firm, Alexandra was counsel at Robins Kaplan, LLP. Before that, she was counsel for Zelle LLP (Oakland) and a partner, senior attorney, and associate at three Dallas-based firms. Among her career highlights, she has acted as lead counsel and second-chair in arbitrations and jury trials, with responsibilities including voir dire, direct and cross examination of fact and expert witnesses, and arguing trial-related motions. She has obtained numerous successful jury verdicts and judgments totaling over $50 million, including a verdict and judgment of $25.3 million and a corresponding 5th Circuit appellate victory in a breach of contract dispute. She was also a trial team member for several multi-district and class action lawsuits in the healthcare and energy industries.
Alexandra has been a co-panelist on “Taking ‘Killer’ Depositions of Key Witnesses” for the Bar Association of San Francisco (2023) and “Settling History & Predicting the Future” for the American Bar Association Insurance Coverage Litigation Committee’s Annual Conference (2023), as well as a co-presenter on “Insuring the Digital Future” at the 2022 ABA ICLC Annual Conference. She has written for the CAT-Law Navigator, Insurance Law360, the Journal of Texas Insurance Law, and Texas Business Litigation on the intersection of law and economics.
In Texas and California, Alexandra has been selected by Super Lawyers as a business litigation “Rising Star.”
Alexandra volunteers for the Little Brothers Friends of the Elderly a San Francisco-based non-profit organization that provides friendship and companionship to isolated and lonely elders.