Abdisamed “AJ” Awed, Esq. brings an unusual combination of legal training, dispute-resolution experience, executive leadership, and lived perspective to his practice.

At Mitchell Hamline, AJ developed a particular interest in mediation, arbitration, and the ways thoughtful legal counsel can help people resolve difficult problems before conflict defines the outcome. His dispute-resolution training has included mediation, international arbitration, and conflict-resolution theory and practice. He was also selected as an American Arbitration Association Higginbotham Fellow.

That perspective has continued through his professional life. AJ has spent more than five years in nonprofit executive leadership and currently serves as Co-Executive Director of Community Mediation Minnesota.

AAA Law Office brings those experiences together. AJ approaches legal representation by listening carefully, communicating directly, understanding the larger circumstances surrounding a problem, and developing a strategy suited to the client rather than forcing every client into the same approach.

For AJ, good lawyering is not simply knowing the law. It is helping people understand their choices and move forward with clarity.