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Alexandra Saites
29 Linden Street, Apartment 412, Hackensack, New Jersey 07601 ● (201) 923-4821 ● alexandra.saites@gmail.com
BAR ADMISSIONS New York and New Jersey
EXPERIENCE Stern & Eisenberg, PC, Iselin, NJ
Associate, August 2013-present
· Draft motions, stipulations, affidavits, and settlement agreements
· Manage Order of Reference group within firm
· Review title
· Appear in court for settlement conferences and motion hearings
· Research and draft memoranda for trial, such as on the application of constructive trusts and the Real Property Actions and Proceedings Law
· Defend against alleged violations of state and federal regulations, including Regulation Z, the Truth-in-Lending Act, and the Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act
· Started replevin practice within firm, drafting complaint and judgment for same
· Started REO practice within firm, drafting purchase agreements of foreclosed properties
· Expanded eviction practice within firm, conducting inquests, obtaining first-chair trial experience, and arguing appellate cases
Rosner Nocera & Ragone, LLP, Wall Street, New York, NY
Associate, March 2012-August 2013
· Appeared in court for discovery conferences
· Drafted motions, discovery requests/responses, pleadings, and default/acceleration correspondence to delinquent borrowers
· Performed extensive document review
· Researched and drafted memoranda, such as on equitable remedies for breach of contract claims regarding securities and invoking the Fifth Amendment during Examinations Under Oath
Seton Hall University School of Law
Center for Social Justice, Immigrants’ Rights/International Human Rights Clinic, Newark, NJ
Student Attorney, August 2010-December 2010
· Researched country conditions for possible asylum claim
· Conducted client interviews and drafted correspondence to clients, attorneys, police officers, and government employees
· Drafted and edited FOIA requests and VAWA affidavits and applications
UBS Investment Bank, New York, NY
Diversity Summer Associate- General Counsel, June 2009-July 2009
· Researched various topics, including service of process, breach of fiduciary duty, and protective orders
· Conducted discovery, including document review
· Attended hearings on Article 78 proceedings and drafted memoranda summarizing and analyzing findings of those hearings
· Participated in status meetings, meetings with outside counsel, and conference calls, both foreign and domestic
EDUCATION Seton Hall University School of Law, Newark, NJ
Juris Doctor, May 2011
GPA: 3.459
Honor: Chancellor Scholarship
Activities: Ronald Riccio Moot Court Competition; Eugene Gressman Moot Court Competition; NITA Deposition Skills Program;
Spanish translator, Center for Social Justice; Mentor to First-Year Students, Fall 2010-Spring 2011
The College of New Jersey, Ewing, NJ
Bachelor of Science, cum laude, in Criminology and Spanish, May 2008
GPA: 3.644
Honors: Edward J. Bloustein Distinguished Scholar; TCNJ Merit Scholar; Ralston Grant recipient; Alpha Phi Sigma National
Honor Society for Criminal Justice and Sigma Delta Pi National Collegiate Hispanic Honor Society
Activities: American Criminal Justice Association, Treasurer and TCNJ Hellenic Society, Founding Member and Vice-President
Independent Study: Languages across the Curriculum
· Wrote a critical essay, in Greek, exploring Sophocles’ portrayal of masculinity in Philoctetes
Universidad Pablo de Olavide, Seville, Spain, Spring 2007
PUBLICATION Co-editor, Seton Hall University School of Law, Center for Social Justice, Immigrants’ Rts./Int’l Hum. Rts. Clinic,
All Work and No Pay: Day Laborers, Wage Theft, and Workplace Justice in New Jersey (Jan. 2011)
LANGUAGES Fluent in Spanish and Greek
INTERESTS Spanish literature and European travel