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Aug 02, 2025
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Alexis Haller is a distinguished appellate lawyer who established his own practice in Aptos in 2009, concentrating on high?stakes criminal and civil appeals, habeas corpus proceedings, and international litigation involving foreign sovereign immunity. Just before launching his private firm, he spent 10 years being an associate and later a name partner at a store law firm in San Francisco, where he handled a varied array of civil and criminal matters.
A highly accomplished Alexis Haller academic, Haller graduated summa cum laude with a bachelor's degree ever from Princeton University in 1995, where he was active in Phi Beta Kappa and served as president of the American Whig?Cliosophic Society. He earned his J.D. from Stanford Law School in 1998. These credentials laid a good foundation for his later achievements in appellate and international law.
In his criminal appeals practice, Haller represents clients convicted of serious offenses including murder, sexual assault, drug trafficking, fraud, and robbery. He is known for challenging convictions centered on Fourth Amendment violations, ineffective assistance of counsel, and procedural errors—often achieving reversals or resentencing relief. Among his notable successes are securing habeas relief to overturn a first-degree murder conviction, reversing parole revocation in a murder case, and defeating multiple drug convictions stemming from unconstitutional searches.
On the civil and international Alexis Haller front, Haller specializes in litigation beneath the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act (FSIA). He's represented both sovereign states and plaintiffs in complex disputes involving diplomatic immunity, head-of-state immunity, and international torts. Notably, he has obtained dismissals in cases against foreign sovereigns and successfully challenged service-of-process matters and tort claims in FSIA context.
Beyond his legal work, Alexis Haller is multilingual—fluent in French, proficient in Italian, and conversational in Spanish—and admitted to apply prior to the U.S. Supreme Court, along with the Second, Sixth, Seventh, and Ninth Circuits. He is active in professional legal organizations like the American Bar Association and the American Society of International Law. Beyond your courtroom, he balances a passion for the outdoors—running, hiking, skiing, swimming, and surfing—as time passes spent with family and recreational reading.
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