Contact Alexander Rundlet

Alexander joined Podhurst Orseck in 2006 and handles criminal matters of every level in the State and Federal courts; quasi-criminal and civil regulatory matters before State and Federal agencies, including before The Florida Bar; simple and complex commercial disputes; and personal injury matters.

Alexander was born in Denver, Colorado. He earned his undergraduate degree from Dartmouth College (B.A., History, 1992) and his law degree from the University of Pennsylvania Law School (J.D., 1999).

Prior to law school, Alexander was a Health Education Volunteer in the United States Peace Corps in Mali, West Africa, where he provided health care to a population of approximately 50,000.

In law school, Alexander was awarded the University of Pennsylvania Law School’s Public Interest Scholarship; was a Senior and Comments Editor of the University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law; and was the recipient of the Law School’s Jefferson B. Fordham Human Rights Award.

After law school, Alexander clerked for the Honorable Andre M. Davis of the United States District Court for the District of Maryland.

Following his clerkship, Alexander was awarded a Post-Graduate Justice Fellowship by George Soros’ Open Society Institute. As a Soros Post-Graduate Justice Fellow, Alexander worked as a Staff Attorney at the Southern Center for Human Rights in Atlanta, Georgia, between 2000 and 2003, where he represented individuals in misdemeanor and felony cases and represented individuals on death row in Georgia and Alabama in capital post-conviction proceedings. As a Soros Fellow, Alexander also was a member of the State Bar of Georgia’s Indigent Defense Committee and worked with a coalition of lawyers who, through a coordinated campaign of class action litigation, public education and lobbying efforts in the Georgia General Assembly, brought about sweeping criminal justice reform in the State of Georgia. He has appeared before the Georgia Court of Appeals and the Georgia Supreme Court.

Alexander moved to Miami, Florida in 2003. He gained extensive courtroom and jury trial experience as an Assistant Public Defender in the Office of the Public Defender for the Eleventh Judicial Circuit in and for Miami-Dade County, Florida, representing individuals charged with misdemeanor, juvenile and felony offenses.

He is a member of the Georgia Bar (admitted 2000); the Alabama Bar (admitted 2001); the District of Columbia Bar (admitted 2001); and the Florida Bar (admitted 2003). He is a also a
member of the Bars of the United States District Courts for the Southern District of Florida, the
District of Maryland and the Northern District of Georgia. He is also a member of the Bars of
United States Courts of Appeal for the Fourth and Eleventh Circuits.

He is a member of the Dade County Bar Association; the Miami-Dade Justice Association; the Florida Justice Association; the Federal Bar Association of the Southern District of Florida; the Wilkie D. Ferguson, Jr., Bar Association; the Cuban American Bar Association; the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers; and the Florida Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers.

His article, Opting for Death: State Responses to the AEDPA’s Opt-in Provisions And The Need For a Right to Post-Conviction Counsel, is published at 1 U. Pa. J. Cont. L. 661 (1999).