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Alejandro Caffarelli is a founding shareholder and head of litigation at Caffarelli & Siegel Ltd. He has been admitted to practice law before the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, the Illinois Supreme Court, and the Minnesota Supreme Court. He also is a member of the trial bar of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois. In addition, Mr. Caffarelli has extensive experience representing clients at trial and in investigations and proceedings before administrative agencies, including the National Labor Relations Board, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the Citizenship and Immigration Service, the Department of Labor, and related state and local agencies.

Mr. Caffarelli received an B.A. from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, with a double major of History and Spanish Literature. He was awarded his Juris Doctor from the University of Minnesota Law School, where he served as Note & Comment Editor of the Minnesota Law Review. In 1995, Mr. Caffarelli's article on asset forfeitures was one of the few student articles accepted for publication in the Law Review.

During the course of his legal education, Mr. Caffarelli was an intern for the Honorable Judge Michael Davis of the United States District Court. Upon graduation, Mr. Caffarelli clerked for the Honorable Judge Gary Crippen of the Minnesota Court of Appeals, after which he worked at two mid-size Chicago law firms that concentrated in the area of labor and employment law and civil rights litigation. In 2002 Mr. Caffarelli and Marc J. Siegel formed the law firm of Caffarelli & Siegel Ltd., which currently serves a broad range of clients, from individuals to small businesses and Fortune 500 Companies, and concentrates in the areas of labor and employment litigation and business immigration law. The firm also handles a wide range of commercial litigation.

In 2005, Mr. Caffarelli participated in the National Institute for Trial Advocacy's Midwest Regional Workshop.  He also has served as faculty on an attorney panel addressing special litigation issues for undocumented alien employees, held by the Civil Rights Section of the Chicago Bar Association.

Mr. Caffarelli provides pro bono services for the Chicago Interfaith Committee on Worker Issues attorney panel. He also volunteered to provide legal assistance for the City of Chicago’s immigration workshops, sponsored by Mayor Richard M. Daley. Mr. Caffarelli graduated from the United Neighborhood Organization’s Metropolitan Leadership Institute (“MLI”), which was created to provide training to Hispanic professionals that have an interest in public leadership. 

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