Alex Cardenas

Alex Cardenas is an attorney with MSMC Injury Lawyers in Des Moines whose practice focuses on immigration law. Cardenas represents clients in family-based immigration, humanitarian immigration matters, and removal defense. His work involves helping individuals and families understand immigration procedures, prepare applications or filings, respond to government requirements, and address cases in Immigration Court. He also brings prior experience in criminal and family law settings that can intersect with immigration concerns.

Cardenas earned a B.A. in Finance from Villanova University in 2015, with minors in Management Information Systems and Business Law, and a J.D. from Creighton University School of Law in 2018. He also earned a master’s degree in Government Organizations and Leadership. His business, government, and legal education supports immigration work that requires detailed documentation, statutory analysis, client counseling, and careful attention to administrative procedures and deadlines.

During law school, Cardenas worked with an immigration practice and later joined a nonprofit immigration organization, where he eventually served as a managing attorney and helped more than 200 immigration clients. He then spent two years at another firm handling immigration, criminal, and family law matters before joining his current practice in 2021. His experience includes family petitions, humanitarian forms of relief, and removal-defense matters before immigration authorities and courts.

Alex Cardenas brings nonprofit, private-practice, and courtroom experience to immigration clients in Iowa. Cardenas’s work centers on legal processes that can affect family unity, lawful status, humanitarian protection, and the ability to remain in the United States. His background helps clients prepare records, understand procedural requirements, and respond to government action while receiving practical guidance through administrative and court-based immigration matters.

Law Office Affiliations

• Attorney, MSMC Injury Lawyers, PLLC
• Member, Iowa State Bar Association
• Member, AILA
• Board of Directors and Secretary, Iowa MMJ

Licensed State

• Iowa

Education

• Creighton University School of Law
  Juris Doctor (JD)
• Villanova University
  Bachelor of Arts (BA) in Finance

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