Alexandra (“Alexa”) Bourbon focuses her practice on the defense of high-stakes toxic tort and environmental litigation, including PFAS, asbestos, talc, and silica matters. She advises underwriters on emerging claims and defends manufacturers and premises owners in complex products liability, premises liability, and other sophisticated tort cases nationwide.
Alexa’s experience ranges from pre-suit consultation through jury verdict. She has represented corporations on the local, regional, and national levels, in the defense of claimed liabilities from the use of numerous industrial products including friction products (such as brakes and clutches), pipe products, industrial sealing products (including gaskets and packing), and other equipment. She has also defended and consulted numerous defendant companies sued for liabilities arising from the manufacture, supply, and distribution of consumer products including those containing talc, PFAS, and other component substances.
Alexa’s practice includes a strong focus on expert development and expert witness trial strategy. She regularly works with physicians (specifically pulmonologists, pathologists, oncologists, radiologists, and occupational medicine physicians), toxicologists, industrial hygienists, epidemiologists, and other medical/technical experts.
She is routinely engaged in expert discovery, motion practice, and trial preparation. She has substantial experience in trial preparation, in-trial practice, and post-trial practice in numerous cases and jurisdictions including Louisiana, Virginia, South Carolina, Iowa, and Pennsylvania. Alexa has been a member of multiple national trial and coordinating counsel teams and has assisted in the defense of cases in over 20 states.
During law school, Alexa competed in the Tulane International Baseball Arbitration Competition and won the Tulane Baseball Arbitration Intraschool Competition in 2016. She also served as the senior business editor for the Tulane Journal of International and Comparative Law and earned a certificate in sports law.
Prior to joining MG+M, Alexa worked as a judicial law clerk to the Honorable Chief Judge Christopher J. Bruno of the Orleans Parish Civil District Court, where she gained valuable insight into judicial decision-making, motion practice, and procedure.
