Partner | Director of Homeland Security & Security Threat Assessment Practice
Attorney Focused on Challenging Government Security Threat Assessments, Credentialing Decisions, and Homeland Security Determinations
Alex Carr leads National Security Law Firm’s Homeland Security and Security Threat Assessment Practice, representing individuals and businesses facing government decisions that can affect their ability to travel, work, obtain credentials, maintain licenses, or operate within regulated industries.
Alex’s practice focuses on matters involving Global Entry denials and revocations, Transportation Worker Identification Credential (TWIC) appeals and waivers, Hazardous Materials Endorsement (HME) appeals and waivers, customs seizures, and other government programs that rely upon security threat assessments and risk-based decision-making. These cases often involve agencies making significant determinations based on information that is incomplete, inaccurate, misunderstood, or unavailable to the individual affected.
A significant part of Alex’s practice involves uncovering the information government agencies rely upon when making these decisions. Through extensive use of the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) and related records requests, he works to obtain critical information, challenge inaccurate assumptions, and develop evidence that supports a favorable outcome. His experience navigating government records systems and administrative processes provides clients with an important advantage in matters that often lack transparency.
Alex’s experience gives clients valuable insight into how government agencies evaluate risk, assess trustworthiness, review background information, and make decisions affecting credentials, trusted traveler status, transportation security programs, and customs enforcement actions. He understands that many of these cases are fundamentally about government perceptions of risk and that successfully challenging those perceptions often requires a strategic combination of records analysis, investigation, mitigation, and advocacy.
As leader of the firm’s Security Threat Assessment Practice, Alex has helped build one of the nation’s most active practices focused on government credentialing, trusted traveler programs, transportation security matters, customs enforcement issues, and related administrative appeals. His work frequently involves the intersection of homeland security, government investigations, regulatory compliance, administrative law, and national security concerns.
Today, Alex represents travelers, transportation professionals, business owners, contractors, credential holders, and other individuals facing government actions involving Global Entry, TWIC, HME, customs seizures, credentialing concerns, and other matters involving government trust and risk determinations.
Jurisdictions Admitted: Ohio. Represents clients nationwide in federal administrative, homeland security, transportation security, customs, and credentialing matters.
Education: J.D., Case Western Reserve University School of Law; B.A., Ohio University, with honors.