Alexandra Adkins

Ms. Adkins joined The Wiggins Law Group in 2026. She has been defending hospitals, physicians, nurses, and HMOs in medical malpractice litigation since 2014. Ms. Adkins has litigated cases in all of Maryland’s counties, in federal court, and in the District of Columbia. She has briefed and argued appeals in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, the Supreme Court of Maryland, and the Appellate Court of Maryland. 

Ms. Adkins also advises health care institutions, insurers, and risk managers on a variety of legal issues and challenges that arise in the health care industry. She regularly lectures and presents to physicians, nurses, and professional medical practice groups in Maryland and in the District of Columbia on medical malpractice and risk management related issues.

Prior to entering private practice, Ms. Adkins served as a judicial law clerk to the Honorable Marcus Z. Shar of the Circuit Court for Baltimore City, Maryland. During law school, she worked as a law clerk at boutique appellate litigation firm in Towson, Maryland, where she extensively researched legal issues and wrote arguments for appellate briefs filed in the Supreme Court of the United States, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, the Supreme Court of Maryland, and the Appellate Court of Maryland. Ms. Adkins also served as a research assistant for Professor Byron L. Warnken and assisted with the completion of his three-volume treatise, Maryland Criminal Procedure.

Ms. Adkins has been selected for inclusion in Maryland Super Lawyers® – Rising Stars and in Washington DC Super Lawyers® – Rising Stars since 2023.  No more than 2.5 percent of Maryland lawyers who are under the age of 40, or who have been in practice for 10 years or less, are named to the Rising Stars list.