Alexander W.Prunka (Alex)

Associate

Cleveland + 1.216.586.1327

Alex Prunka focuses his practice on complex litigation matters before state and federal courts. He has defended clients in consumer and securities class actions, as well as contractual disputes. Alex has experience with many aspects of litigation, such as motion practice, legal research, discovery, and trial preparation.

While in law school, Alex worked at a law firm where he assisted with criminal and civil matters before state and federal courts and with administrative matters before bodies such as the North Carolina State Bar and the North Carolina State Board of Elections. During this time, Alex provided extensive assistance with research and briefing, which ultimately resulted in the reversal of a murder conviction by the North Carolina Court of Appeals and the Supreme Court of North Carolina.

Experience

  • Data and document vendor obtains summary judgment in Middle District of North CarolinaJones Day successfully defended a data and document vendor which provides a platform for the request and provision of real estate disclosure documents in a putative class action in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina, involving claims that the client's service fees were unreasonable and violative of certain state statutes which regulate the provision of disclosure documents by planned community owners' associations, as well as North Carolina’s consumer protection laws.
  • Data and document vendor obtains dismissal with prejudice in Western District of North CarolinaJones Day successfully defended a data and document vendor which provides a platform for the request and provision of real estate disclosure documents in a putative class action in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of North Carolina, involving claims that the client's service fees were unreasonable and violative of certain state statutes which regulate the provision of disclosure documents by planned community owners' associations, as well as North Carolina’s consumer protection laws.
  • Nine Point Energy secures trial victory clearing path for successful reorganization through sale of its assetsJones Day is representing an oil and gas exploration and production company, Nine Point Energy, that is the Debtor in a chapter 11 bankruptcy case, leading to the successful ruling from the bench concluding that at least $150 million of the $157 million in liens asserted by Caliber were invalid, thus, clearing the path for the successful reorganization of Nine Point through a sale of its assets.
  • Commercial sterilization company defends against multiple personal injury lawsuitsJones Day serves as lead counsel for a commercial sterilization company in multiple personal injury cases.
  • Steel manufacturer and its current and former CEOs defend consolidated federal securities class actionsJones Day is defending a steel manufacturer and its current and former CEOs in consolidated federal securities class actions in which the plaintiffs allege that the manufacturer’s share price fell over 26 percent as a result of alleged corrective disclosures in April 2017.