04/10/2026
Before Alex Alvarez became a well-respected jury selection expert, he was a homicide and organized crime detective in Miami-Dade County, Florida. He was one of the youngest officers hired by his department, starting on patrol during a period of serious civil unrest, the Mariel Boat Lift, and then rose to the detective bureau during the infamous Co***ne Cowboy era. He became the lead investigator in the Miami River Cops scandal. The investigation resulted in the conviction of 18 corrupt City of Miami police officers. During federal trials, he sat at the prosecutor's counsel table as lead investigator. That experience inspired him to become a trial lawyer.
Private practice followed, moving through product liability and medical malpractice before founding his own firm and becoming a leading figure in to***co litigation, arguing cases rooted in corporate malfeasance and decades of fraud.
And somewhere along the way, he became a master of jury selection. The instincts he built reading people in the homicide division didn't disappear when he put on a suit. They sharpened.
Alex joined Dr. Ross Camidge on the How This Is Building Me podcast to talk through the full arc, the cases, the philosophy, and what four decades of reading people actually teaches you about justice.
Listen to the full episode here: https://lnkd.in/ez_BnfWg
