Alexa C. Salcito

Alexa C. Salcito is a Partner at Connell Foley LLP and Co-Chair of the firm's Labor & Employment Group. Alexa represents and advises clients in a wide range of employment litigation, complex business disputes, insurance coverage matters, directors' and officers' liability matters, and white-collar crime investigations.

Alexa has significant experience representing employers and insureds in employment-related disputes, including claims involving discrimination, harassment, retaliation, wrongful termination, wage-and-hour matters, and class and collective actions under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA). She also conducts and advises companies on internal workplace investigations involving allegations of employee misconduct, discrimination, harassment, and other employment-related issues.

Alexa's commercial litigation practice encompasses sophisticated business disputes, including shareholder and partnership disputes, business breakups, construction matters, contractual disputes, and matters involving intersecting business, employment, and regulatory issues. Her experience also extends to matters involving corporate governance, alleged breaches of fiduciary duties, and directors' and officers' liability. She counsels corporate clients, directors, officers, and other business stakeholders on litigation strategy, risk assessment, and the defense of complex claims involving significant financial and reputational exposure. Her extensive commercial litigation experience complements her employment practice, providing her with a broad litigation perspective and the ability to navigate matters involving complex and often competing business and legal considerations.

As a trial attorney, Alexa has comprehensive experience in all stages of litigation, including pre-suit investigation and strategy, complex motion practice, written discovery, depositions, expert witness testimony, trial preparation, and trial. She has first-chair trial experience and has also served in a second-chair capacity in complex litigation matters. She regularly represents clients in mediations and arbitrations and has substantial appellate experience, having drafted numerous appellate briefs before the New Jersey Superior Court, Appellate Division, as well as petitions for certification to the New Jersey Supreme Court.

In addition to her litigation practice, Alexa serves as outside counsel to small and closely held businesses, advising them on a range of day-to-day legal and business matters. In this capacity, she works closely with business owners and management on employment issues, contracts, risk management, disputes, and other legal matters that arise in the operation of their businesses.

Professional and Community Affiliations

• Member, New Jersey State Bar Association (NJSBA)
• Hudson County Bar Association
• New Jersey Women Lawyers Association

Best Lawyers in America: Ones to Watch (2024-2027)

• Commercial Litigation 

New Jersey Super Lawyers, Rising Stars (2019-2021, 2023-2027)

• Business Litigation

The National Trial Lawyers

• Top "40 under 40" (2021)
• Northern New Jersey (2022)

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