Alexa C. Salcito

Alexa C. Salcito is a Partner in Connell Foley LLP’s Complex Commercial Litigation, Labor & Employment, and Insurance Coverage Groups. She represents and advises clients in a wide range of complex business disputes, employment litigation, insurance coverage matters, and white-collar crime investigations.

Alexa has significant experience representing employers in employment-related disputes, including wage-and-hour matters and class and collective actions involving claims 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 business breakups, partnership disputes, construction matters, contractual disputes, and matters involving intersecting business, employment, and regulatory issues. She counsels clients on litigation strategy and risk at all stages of a dispute. 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.

An established litigator, Alexa has comprehensive experience in all stages of the litigation process, 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 regularly represents clients in mediations and arbitrations. Alexa also has substantial appellate experience and has drafted numerous appellate briefs in matters 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.

Prior to joining the firm, Alexa represented clients at a distinguished plaintiff’s litigation firm in New Jersey. She also served as a law clerk to the Honorable Heidi Willis Currier, J.A.D., in the New Jersey Superior Court, Appellate Division.

Alexa earned her J.D. from Seton Hall University School of Law, where she served as an Articles Editor for the Seton Hall Legislative Journal, Vol. 39. She also received specialized certifications through Seton Hall’s U.S. Healthcare Compliance Program (HCCP) and NITA Deposition Skills Program and was a member of the Civil Rights and Constitutional Litigation Clinic at the Seton Hall Law School Center for Social Justice.

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, 2023-2026)

• Business Litigation

The National Trial Lawyers

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

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