About Alan
Alan Silver is a litigator with more than four decades of experience representing clients in trust and estates litigation, ERISA litigation, and commercial and business disputes, including appellate matters.Mr. Silver has been involved in many of the most high-profile trust and estates lawsuits in Minnesota, including litigation involving the Prince Estate, the Hill Trust, the Galloway Trust, the Binger Estate, and the Williams Trust, the family who started the Creamette Pasta Company. He regularly defends large corporations, affluent families, charitable organizations, and individuals in probate, state, federal, and appellate courts, including the Minnesota Supreme Court.Mr. Silver is chair of Bassford Remele’s Trust and Estates Litigation Practice Group.
Alan Silver is a litigator with more than four decades of experience representing clients in trust and estates litigation, ERISA litigation, and commercial and business disputes, including appellate matters.
Mr. Silver has been involved in many of the most high-profile trust and estates lawsuits in Minnesota, including litigation involving the Prince Estate, the Hill Trust, the Galloway Trust, the Binger Estate, and the Williams Trust, the family who started the Creamette Pasta Company. He regularly defends large corporations, affluent families, charitable organizations, and individuals in probate, state, federal, and appellate courts, including the Minnesota Supreme Court.
Mr. Silver is chair of Bassford Remele’s Trust and Estates Litigation Practice Group.
Education
Awards & Recognition
- Lawyer of the Year: Litigation - Trusts and Estates, Minneapolis (2024)
- Lawyer of the Year: Litigation - Trusts and Estates, Minneapolis (2021)
- Lawyer of the Year: Litigation - ERISA, Minneapolis (2020)
- Lawyer of the Year: Litigation - Trusts and Estates, Minneapolis (2016)
- Lawyer of the Year: Litigation - ERISA, Minneapolis (2012)
- Recognized: Commercial Litigation
- Recognized: Litigation - ERISA
- Recognized: Litigation - Trusts and Estates
- Practice Area: Personal Injury Litigation
- Practice Area: Trusts and Estates
- Special Focus: Antitrust
- Special Focus: Business Disputes
- Special Focus: Civil Litigation
- Special Focus: Complex Litigation
- Special Focus: COVID-19
- Special Focus: ERISA
- Special Focus: Fiduciary Duties
- Special Focus: Large Case Litigation
- Special Focus: Litigation
- Special Focus: Trusts and Estates