Alex Piletska

Senior Solicitor

Alex is a senior solicitor at Turpin Miller. 

In addition to her work in business and skilled migration, she is able to advise on a wide range of immigration matters, including family and human rights applications.  She has a particular interest in complex nationality cases, Judicial Review and technical procedural issues like validity.

Alex studied English at the University of Cambridge and Cognitive Psychology at the Open University, before completing an MSc in Experimental Psychology at the University of Sussex in 2014.

While undertaking the Graduate Diploma in Law (GDL) at the University of Sussex, Alex worked as a freelance proofreader and copywriter. She joined Turpin Miller in early 2017 and qualified as a solicitor in August 2020. She has completed her LLM (LPC) with the University of Law, achieving a Distinction (80%).

She contributes regularly to Free Movement, a popular immigration and asylum blog, and LexisNexis, where she serves on the panel of experts and the Q&A panel.

Alex is a co-founder of the Ukraine Advice Project UK, a non-profit group set up to link qualified lawyer volunteers to Ukrainians affected by the conflict seeking free legal immigration and asylum advice. To date, the project has signed up more than 600 lawyers and has helped more than 4000 families escaping the conflict.

She is ranked an "associate to watch" (Human Rights, Asylum and Deportation) in Chambers and Partners 2023, 2024 and 2025. She was also ranked as an EDI ('Equality, Diversity and Inclusion') Champion in 2023 and 2024; and she is ranked in the Legal 500 as a "key lawyer" in 2024 and 2025.

Alex speaks conversational Russian.