Alex M. Tillett-Saks

Associate

Alex Tillett-Saks joined Dowd, Bloch, Bennett, Cervone, Auerbach & Yokich LLP in 2023. He specializes in representing and advising union clients in a variety of matters, including contract negotiations, arbitration hearings, internal union matters, and proceedings before the National Labor Relations Board and other governmental agencies. He also has extensive experience assisting unions in navigating complex organizing drives via both the NLRB process and card check recognition, from initial corporate research through first contract ratification. Alex also represents union-sponsored employee benefit funds on a variety of matters related to ERISA.

Alex teaches courses at the DePaul Labor Education Center. Prior to joining the firm, he was in-house counsel for a large Teamsters local in Chicago. He is a 2015 graduate of Chicago-Kent College of Law with a certificate in Labor and Employment Law and was also the Organizing Director for the Wisconsin Federation of Nurses and Health Professionals.

Alex is admitted to practice before the Supreme Court of Illinois and the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois.