Alexander S. Rusek

Board Director

Alexander S. Rusek is a Shareholder with Foster, Swift, Collins & Smith, P.C. in Lansing, Michigan.

Mr. Rusek’s practice focuses on complex mass action and class action civil litigation, business law & litigation, criminal law, government relations, and appellate law. Mr. Rusek has represented established businesses, new businesses, non-profits, professionals, and individuals involved in multi-party, mass action, and class action litigation, notably representing over 100 survivors of sexual assault in the Michigan State University/Larry Nassar and University of Michigan/Robert Anderson litigations and a defendant in the Flint Water Crisis related civil and criminal litigations (all charges dismissed). Mr. Rusek is a graduate of Oakland University and the Michigan State University College of Law, cum laude. 

In addition to his robust legal practice, Mr. Rusek is also a board member of The Athlete Survivors’ Assist, board member of Highfields, Inc., board member of Downtown Lansing, Inc., board member of the Capital Area Humane Society, board member and President-Elect of the Ingham County Bar Association, fellow of the Ingham County Bar Foundation, member of the State Bar of Michigan Civil Procedure & Courts Committee, board member of the State Bar of Michigan Litigation Section Governing Council, board member of the State Bar of Michigan Criminal Law Section Council, Past-President of the Ingham County Bar Association Young Lawyers Section, Past-Chairperson of the Ingham County Board of Commissioners Equal Opportunity Committee, former Democratic Precinct Delegate for Lansing’s Ward 1, Precinct 6, and a member of multiple local and national bar associations.

Mr. Rusek was the recipient of the 2024 Shared Resources Super Volunteer Award, the 2023 Ingham County Bar Association’s President’s Special Recognition Award, a 2018 recipient of the Lansing Regional Chamber of Commerce 10 Over the Next 10 Award, a 2018 recipient of Oakland University’s Young Alumni 10 Within 10 Award, and a 2016 recipient of the Ingham County Bar Association Top 5 Under 35 Award. He has authored multiple articles that have appeared in the State Bar of Michigan Journal and other State Bar of Michigan publications, American Bar Association publications, the Detroit Bar Association’s Detroit Lawyer, the Ingham County Bar Association’s BRIEFS, and others. Mr. Rusek was Mental Health First Aid USA certified in 2019 and seeks to incorporate trauma-informed principles into his practice every day.