Alejandra Barcenas

Alejandra is a litigation associate at Lipe Lyons who focuses her practice on the defense of commercial, construction, premises liability, and transportation claims in state and federal courts.

Prior to joining Lipe Lyons, Ms. Barcenas became a certified mediator with the Chicago Center for Conflict Resolution in 2017 and thereafter mediated several court-mandated mediations in both English and Spanish, as a fluent native Spanish speaker, for cases pending in the Circuit Court of Cook County.

Ms. Barcenas also worked for a Chicago-based litigation law firm where she gained extensive experience in the areas of property insurance subrogation litigation, insurance coverage and defense, business and commercial litigation, condominium disputes, personal injury, and resolving disputes through court-mandated mediation and arbitration, and inter-company arbitration. Ms. Barcenas also has experience handling disputes arising from construction worksite accidents, and representing general contractors and subcontractors in personal injury cases and in complex disputes involving construction contracts and subcontracts.

As an Associate Attorney with Lipe Lyons, Ms. Barcenas has represented clients in state and federal courts in disputes involving breach of contract, breach of restrictive covenant, copyright infringement, intellectual property infringement, corporate disputes and corporate dissolutions. Ms. Barcenas has also represented clients in personal injury cases involving claims arising out of transportation, construction, and product-related accidents. Since joining Lipe Lyons, Ms. Barcenas has successfully defended clients in numerous pretrial settlement conferences, assisted in preparation for multiple complex trials, obtained a favorable decision on a complex motion for discovery sanctions involving a commercial dispute and multiple lawsuits, and assisted in obtaining a verdict in favor of a Lipe Lyon’s client in a complicated commercial eviction/dispute case. 

Ms. Barcenas has worked on cases in both State and Federal Courts located in a number of States including Illinois, Indiana, Michigan and Missouri.