Alexandra “Alex” M. Honeycutt is a Senior Associate based in the firm’s Knoxville office who specializes in consumer class action litigation. She is part of Milberg’s Cybersecurity & Privacy Practice Group and Consumer Products Group and she also serves on the firm’s Summer Associate committee.

Ms. Honeycutt began working with Milberg before her third and final year at the University of Tennessee College of Law, and was heavily involved in mass toxic tort litigation against Jacobs Engineering following an environmental disaster and clean-up project that ravaged Kingston, Tennessee. Since then, Ms. Honeycutt has shifted her focus to advocating for patients’ and consumers’ online privacy rights.

Her data and privacy experience includes leading case investigations and motion briefing in over 50 class action lawsuits against HIPAA-covered entities who impermissibly disclosed their patients’ private health information to Facebook, Google, and TikTok. She has been instrumental in bringing national attention to this issue, notably by filing one of the first cases of its kind (Quinto v. The Regents of the University of California, Case No. 22-cv-012970, Sup. Ct. Alameda Cty.).

Ms. Honeycutt was appointed interim co-lead counsel and settlement counsel in In Re Lincare Holdings Inc. Data Breach Litigation, Case No. 8:22-cv-1472-TPB-AAS (M.D. Fla.), co-lead settlement counsel in In re Advocate Aurora Health Pixel Litigation Case No. 2:22-cv-01253 (E.D. Wisc., Aug. 21, 2023), and interim co-lead counsel in Geleng v. Independent Living Systems, LLC, Case No. 1:23-cv-21060 (S.D. Fla.).

As part of the firm’s Consumer Products Group, she has helped litigate over 30 cases involving mislabeled, misbranded, and/or contaminated consumers goods that violate federal laws.

In law school, Ms. Honeycutt served as the President of the Environmental Law Organization, director of the 11^th Annual Appalachian Public Interest Environmental Law Conference, competed as a member of the National Environmental Law Moot Court team, served as a teaching assistant and research assistant for four professors, spent a semester clerking for the Tennessee Court of Appeals, and completed a concentration in business transactions. She graduated from the UT College of Law with honors in May of 2023. Before transitioning to litigation, Ms. Honeycutt spent a year working with an Atlanta-based firm that specializes in taxation, real estate law, conservation land easements, securities, and related business transactions.

Ms. Honeycutt has been recognized by the University of Tennessee and Legal Aid of East Tennessee for her pro bono work and was recently awarded Top 40 Under 40 by The National Trial Lawyers for a second consecutive year. Her pro bono work has primarily focused on landlord tenant disputes. She also spent over two years assisting local attorneys in a wrongful conviction case wherein the accused was found guilty of murdering two teens after being denied his right to counsel in violation of the United States Constitution.

Before relocating to Knoxville, Ms. Honeycutt worked as a naturalist and kayaking guide in Charleston, South Carolina, and later as a mixologist in Brevard, North Carolina. She used to fill her weekends with traveling and rock climbing; she has successfully summited Grand Teton, Half Dome, and small peaks in Patagonia. Today, she gets her outdoor fix by gardening and exploring Knoxville with her husband (who also happens to be a lawyer named Alex).

Notable Cases

• Cousin v. Sharp Healthcare, No. 22-cv-2040-MMA-DDL (S.D. Cal. Nov. 17, 2023) – upholding plaintiff’s wiretapping and invasion of privacy claims
• Warren v. Pomona Valley Hospital Medical Center, No. 23STCV05324 (Cal. Super. Ct.) – upholding plaintiff’s wiretapping and invasion of privacy claims
• Cyr v. Orlando Health, Case No. 8:23 cv-588-WFJ-CPT, ECF No. 37 (M.D. Fla. July 5, 2023) – denying motion to dismiss in its entirety following oral argument
• Kaplan v. South Broward Hospital District, d/b/a Memorial Healthcare System No. CACE22-015026 (Fla. Cir. Ct. Sept. 5, 2023) – upholding plaintiff’s FSCA claim
• Mack v. Lee Memorial Health System, Case No. 2:23-cv-00188-JLB-NPM (M.D. Fla., Ft. Myers Div.)
• Boone v. Snap, Inc., Case No. 2022LA000708 (18th Cir. DuPage Cty., Ill.) – helped obtain a $35 million settlement for 3 million consumers in a privacy class action
• Parris, et al., v. Meta Platforms, Inc., Case No. 2023LA000672 (18th  Cir. DuPage Cty., Ill.) – helped obtain a $68.5 million settlement for 4 million consumers