Managing Partner

Alexander J. Durst, ESQ

Alex J. Durst is a trial attorney with over thirteen years of experience handling commercial and complex civil litigation matters across a wide range of industries, with a focus on financial services litigation and high-dollar-value contractual disputes.

Alex relishes being in the courtroom and often jumps into cases requiring immediate action. In 2025 alone, Alex successfully handled motions for preliminary injunction in three cases—two on the plaintiff side, in which preliminary injunctions were issued in favor of the firm’s clients, and one on the defense side, in which the plaintiff’s motion was denied.

While cases before the Commercial Docket of the Hamilton County Court of Common Pleas and Southern District of Ohio make up a considerable share of Alex’s practice, Alex has also developed a nationwide litigation practice. Current active matters include a payments industry contractual dispute venued in California state court, an adversary proceeding in the Middle District of Florida, and other cases pending in Michigan, Missouri, and Pennsylvania.

Alex has achieved complete defense victories for clients against whom seven- and eight-figure damages were sought, and has secured seven-figure recoveries for plaintiff clients in commercial and other areas of litigation. Many of Alex’s cases have been featured in the news, including a commercial landlord-tenant dispute involving the historic St. Bernard Soap Company in which Durst Kerridge secured judgment for over $32,000,000; the Jane Doe v. Chinedum Ndukwe sexual assault case; a public corruption case brought by the Auditor of State against a high-ranking Metropolitan Sewer District official; a case brought by six victims of the June 27, 2022 Amtrak train derailment; and a sexual harassment case in which the jury awarded substantial compensatory and punitive damages.

Deeply involved in the local legal community, Alex chaired the Cincinnati Bar Association’s Appellate Practice Group from 2018 until 2025 and currently serves as Co-Chair of the CBA’s State and Federal Practice Group. In this capacity, Alex collaborates with Judges and staff of local courts to organize CLEs bringing together the bar and bench. Alex is also active in national organizations, including the Alternative Finance Bar Association and Associations of Payments Professionals.

Having lived in Spain and Argentina, Alex is completely fluent in Spanish, uniquely positioning Durst Kerridge to represent Spanish and Latin American businesses in U.S. litigation.