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Aram V. Desteian

Jessica L. Klander

Shareholder | General Counsel

  • Email | adesteian@bassford.com
  • Phone | 612.746.1088
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Practice Groups

Business & Commercial, Business & Commercial Litigation, Class Actions, Complex Litigation, Cybersecurity & Artificial Intelligence, Data Privacy, General Counsel Services, Lawyers Professional Liability, Lawyers Professional Responsibility, Professional Liability

Biography

Aram Desteian represents businesses in complex commercial litigation, and also counsels and defends other lawyers against a spectrum of professional liability claims.

Aram’s commercial litigation practice includes representing businesses in a wide range of business disputes. As a professional liability attorney, he regularly helps other lawyers prevent and navigate lawsuits, investigations, board proceedings, and hearings involving legal ethics, legal malpractice, and other areas relating to the law of lawyering. Aram has developed a reputation as one of Minnesota’s go-to “lawyer’s lawyers,” serving as outside ethics and risk management counsel to law firms large and small throughout the state.

Aram graduated magna cum laude from William Mitchell College of Law. Prior to entering law school, Aram served as Deputy Finance Director to an incumbent U.S. Senator’s reelection campaign, as well as PAC and Political Director to a national advocacy organization with offices in Washington D.C. and Minneapolis.

Aram is chair of the Minnesota State Bar Association Professionalism & Ethics Section and serves as Bassford Remele’s General Counsel.

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