BigLaw Experience
Until starting a successful solo practice in January 2013 that grew into Medina McKelvey, Alex spent nearly his entire career with large, international firms in Los Angeles and Sacramento—most recently DLA Piper.
Complex Litigation Expertise
Alex excels in handling cases with complicated and novel legal and factual issues in every area of the law, on both sides of a case. He’s skilled at quickly becoming immersed in the applicable law of a given case as well as at learning his clients’ particular business and industry. He’s successfully represented some of the largest companies in California and the United States in multi-million dollar lawsuits.
Advice and Counsel Experience
Alex is skilled in helping individuals, businesses, and public agencies with advice and problem solving, to help prevent litigation before it happens. He draws on his 15 years of litigation experience to advise and counsel clients on the nuances of various legal issues, including employment law, ethical issues, as well as compliance with various discovery and document production and preservation obligations.
Leading Sacramento Litigator
For four years in a row, Alex’s peers voted him as a Northern California Super Lawyers “Rising Star” (awarded to just 2.5% of attorneys in the area) and he was named a “Northern California Super Lawyer ” in 2016, 2017 and 2018. The Sacramento Business Journal named him to its prestigious 40 under 40 list for 2016 and included him as one of a select few Sacramento-area lawyers in its “Best of the Bar” list for five straight years. He has also been named to Sacramento Magazine’s “Top Lawyers” list for 2016, 2017, and 2018.
Strong Academic Credentials
Alex graduated with honors from UC Berkeley (where he also played alto saxophone in the University of California Marching Band). After leaving Cal, he graduated Order of the Coif from Loyola Law School in Los Angeles, where he was an editor on one of Loyola’s three law reviews and competed for two years on a top-ten nationally ranked mock trial team.
Accomplished Advocate
Alex has been praised in the legal community for his legal writing, including his unparalleled attention to detail. He has scored many victories for his clients “on the papers.” He’s also a skilled oral advocate: he’s quick on his feet, knows his way around a courtroom, and doesn’t lose his temper.
“Few lawyers anywhere can match Alex’s litigation skills. And he can flat-out write.”
– David M. Levine
In-House Counsel, UC Davis Health System
Committed to His Profession
Alex holds and has held numerous leadership positions, including as the past president of the Federal Bar Association, as attorney representative to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals (which included planning the annual judicial conference for the Eastern District of California), and just recently as member of a merit selection panel for the Eastern District of California to select the next federal magistrate judge in Redding. He’s dedicated countless hours to serving clients on a pro bono basis. And he’s also a member of the following professional organizations:
- Christian Legal Society (local and national chapters)
- Federal Bar Association (local and national chapters)
- Asian Bar Association of Sacramento
- Sacramento County Bar Association
- Placer County Bar Association
- Roseville Chamber of Commerce
- Secretary and Board Member, Placer Rescue Mission
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Committed to Integrity and to His Community
Alex holds to the highest possible ethical and moral standards in his practice and in his personal life. These convictions lead him to be active in the legal community, where he speaks on ethical issues, and in his community at large to support numerous local and international charitable organizations. Medina McKelvey donates approximately five percent of its profits to charitable causes and each year helps to donate thousands of meals to the needy in our community in the Lawyers vs. Hunger challenge (www.lawyersvshunger.com).
Committed to His Family
Alex has been happily married to his wife of more than 16 years. He’s also the proud dad of four ball-throwing, dad-wrestling, Lego-building, book-loving, couch-jumping, vegetable-avoiding young boys.
