Alexis Ivar Nicholas Haller

Mr. Haller pursued his undergraduate education at Princeton University, where he participated in the Phi Beta Kappa Society, served as the president of the American Whig-Cliosophic Society, and earned a bachelor of arts in history. In 1998, he received his juris doctor from Stanford Law School and subsequently joined boutique San Francisco law firm Swanson, McNamara & Haller LLP. He left the firm in 2009, when he established his own practice.

A member of the American Bar Association and American Society of International Law, Alexis Haller also belongs to the bars of California, Washington, and the District of Columbia. Apart from his law practice, he enjoys hiking, skiing, and swimming, as well as supporting the New York Yankees.

Since opening his law office in 2009, Alexis Haller has focused his practice on criminal appeals, habeas proceedings, civil appeals, and international civil litigation involving foreign sovereign immunity. Mr. Haller also assists other attorneys with complex motions in state and federal court.

From 1999 to 2009, Alexis Haller was first an associate and then a name partner at one of San Francisco’s leading boutique law firms. While at the firm, Mr. Haller handled a wide range of civil and criminal matters.

Alexis Haller received his bachelor’s degree in history from Princeton University in 1995, where he graduated summa cum laude (highest honors). Mr. Haller received his juris doctor degree from Stanford Law School in 1998.

Mr. Haller is a member of the bars of California and the District of Columbia. He is admitted to practice before the United States Supreme Court and the United States Courts of Appeals for the Second, Sixth, Seventh, and Ninth Circuits.

Alexis Haller is an experienced attorney dedicated to providing excellent representation to his clients in the United States and overseas. Mr. Haller represents clients in criminal appeals, habeas proceedings, civil appeals, and international civil litigation.

Mr. Haller represents clients in a broad range of civil appeals and international litigation, including cases involving personal injury torts, fraud, breach of contract, real property disputes, diplomatic immunity, and head-of-state immunity. Although his international practice focuses on the defense of sovereign defendants, Mr. Haller also works with plaintiffs’ attorneys needing assistance in FSIA cases.

The owner of a law office in Aptos, California, Alexis Haller focuses his practice on litigation, appellate work and international law. Mr. Haller’s practice areas include foreign sovereign, diplomatic, and head-of-state immunity, as well as civil litigation, criminal litigation and writs of habeas corpus. Since establishing his practice, he has achieved several successful dismissals in cases involving foreign sovereigns, foreign sovereign officials, and foreign sovereign instrumentalities, and he has successfully challenged discovery against heads of state and foreign officials. In preparation for his career, Alexis Haller earned a bachelor of arts in history from Princeton University, where he graduated summa cum laude, and then went on to earn his juris doctor from Stanford Law School.

Before starting his own firm in 2009, Mr. Haller was a partner at Swanson, McNamara & Haller LLP in San Francisco. During his ten years at the firm, Mr. Haller won several major foreign sovereign immunity appeals, protected the Fifth Amendment rights of foreign citizens under the Hague Evidence Convention and mutual legal assistance treaties, obtained dismissals of civil and criminal pleadings in fraud cases, and successfully challenged key evidence in criminal cases. Alexis Haller is a member of the bars of California, Washington, and the District of Columbia.

Alexis Haller

In federal court, Mr. Haller is a member of the Criminal Justice Act appellate panels in the United States District Courts for the Northern, Central, and Eastern Districts of California. In state court, Mr. Haller is a member of the panels for the First Appellate District and the Sixth Appellate District.

Alexis Haller is a trial and appellate attorney with over thirteen years of FSIA litigation experience. Mr. Haller has achieved dismissals in numerous FSIA actions, and has successfully represented a foreign head of state and foreign diplomatic agents.

Mr. Haller graduated from Princeton University summa cum laude in 1995 and obtained his juris doctor degree from Stanford Law School in 1998. He is a member of the bars of the District of Columbia and California, and is admitted to practice before the United States Supreme Court and various United States courts of appeals.

In a career spanning over a decade, Alexis Haller has successfully litigated challenges to criminal indictments, motions to suppress evidence under the Fourth Amendment of the United States Constitution, and numerous matters related to international law. Alexis Haller currently serves as the principal of a private practice in Aptos, California, focusing on civil litigation, international law and appellate litigation.