Who is Alex Burnet from Next and what is their importance?

Alex Burnet is a lawyer and is also the daughter of Frank Burnet. Alex is part of the legal team that attempts to force BioGen and UCLA to give up their ownership of her father's cells and to compensate him for using the cells without his knowledge. The first case goes against Alex and her legal team, but they intend to appeal. While waiting for the appeal, Alex's father suddenly disappears. Frank tells Alex he is going on vacation. While he is gone, Alex gets a call from her son's teacher telling her some woman from her office is trying to pick her son up. Alex quickly goes to her son's school and stops the woman, but finds herself nearly kidnapped. Alex gets away and takes her son, but instead of going home she switches cars with her assistant and goes to a friend's house.