Alex Whitworth, who serves as co-leader of the firm's Consumer Fraud team, has broad experience representing corporations and individuals in all stages of civil disputes from pre-litigation demand letters through trial and appeal. Her practice focuses primarily on complex consumer disputes and intellectual property litigation. She has represented clients in numerous industries, with an emphasis in consumer products, cryptocurrency, financial services, and technology. Clients appreciate her straight-forward and open communication style, pragmatic advice, and track-record of success. The favorable results she has obtained over the years are numerous.

In her consumer disputes practice, Alex has defended financial institutions and other corporate clients in some of their most high-stakes matters, often involving complex statutory schemes or extremely high-value tort claims.. In addition to working on complex class actions and multi-district litigations, she also assists clients manage strategy around high-volume single-plaintiff litigation and arbitrations.

Alex also has significant experience representing both plaintiffs and defendants in IP disputes, primarily related to trademark, trade dress, unfair competition, and false advertising claims. Alex obtained a unanimous jury verdict for AirWair International Ltd., the maker of Dr. Martens footwear, in a case alleging trade dress infringement against ITX, the U.S. subsidiary of fast-fashion giant Inditex.

Prior to joining BCLP, Alex worked at a large law firm in New York City and served as a law clerk for the Honorable Jay P. Cohen of the Florida Fifth District Court of Appeal. While clerking, she was also an adjunct faculty member at the Barry University School of Law, where she taught advanced appellate writing. Alex graduated with honors from the University of California, Santa Barbara and the Duke University School of Law. While in law school, she served as an editor for the Duke Law Journal and the Duke Forum for Law and Social Change.