Alex V. Hernandez is a member of Pullman & Comley’s Litigation Department and chair of its White Collar, Criminal Defense and Corporate Investigations Section.

Prior to joining Pullman & Comley in 2007, Alex was the Supervisory Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Fairfield County office of the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Connecticut where he supervised 12 attorneys and six support personnel in the investigation and prosecution of criminal tax fraud, white collar crime, fraud, public corruption, computer related offenses, theft of trade secrets and violent felonies.

Alex worked at the U.S. Department of Justice for 16 years. He has handled and supervised hundreds of cases at all phases of litigation, from case assessment and intake, investigation, early case resolution, suppression of evidence, the presentation and cross-examination of expert witnesses, jury selection and trial. He has conducted hundreds of witness and document driven investigations before the grand jury, tried dozens of federal and state jury trials and briefed and argued dozens of appeals in federal and state court.

Prior to joining the Department of Justice in 1991, Alex served for five years as an Assistant District Attorney in the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office.

A highly experienced trial attorney, Alex has served for years as an instructor and lecturer in trial advocacy at the Department of Justice’s National Advocacy Center in Columbia, South Carolina; a guest instructor and lecturer in trial advocacy at the Quinnipiac Law School; and an instructor in trial advocacy at the National Institute for Trial Advocacy. 

• Federal Bar Association - president of the Connecticut chapter
• Connecticut Office of Policy and Management - Crime Lab Working Group
• Connecticut Hispanic Bar Association - member, board of directors

• Cardinal Shehan Center - board of directors
• U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut's Support Court Team - board of directors

• Listed in The Best Lawyers in America in the areas of white collar criminal defense law, 2013 and 2014
• Selected to the ConnecticutSuper Lawyers list in the area of criminal defense: white collar
• Multicultural Leadership Award of Connecticut, 2012