James F. Alexander is an associate in the San Francisco office of Keesal, Young & Logan. His practice spans the range of civil litigation matters routinely handled by the firm.

Mr. Alexander was a law clerk to the Honorable Marilyn Hall Patel of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California from 2008 until joining the firm in 2010.  Before attending law school, Mr. Alexander spent five years in the executive branch of the federal government. He entered government service in 2000 as a Presidential Management Fellow and worked as a policy analyst in the Office of the Secretary of Defense, at the Pentagon. He later joined NASA’s International Space Station program office, where he negotiated international agreements with the Japanese and European space agencies.

Mr. Alexander is a graduate of Stanford Law School, where he completed his juris doctor degree with distinction in 2008. He also has a master’s degree in international law and diplomacy from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University. He earned his bachelor’s degree at Austin College, in Sherman, Texas, and spent the following year as a Fulbright fellow at the University of Munich, Germany.  He was a Texas state champion in debate during high school, and he is fluent in German.

He is also the author of The International Criminal Court and the Prevention of Atrocities: Predicting the Court’s Impact, Villanova Law Review, vol. 54, pp. 1-55 (2009).

Mr. Alexander has been a member of the California bar since 2008. He is admitted to practice before all federal district courts in California as well as the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.