Art Barsegyan has been a member of Nemecek & Cole since January 2025.

Art focuses on legal ethics compliance, California State Bar disciplinary defense and attorney admissions, and legal malpractice defense.

Art graduated cum laude with a B.A. from University of Southern California in 2007. He earned his J.D. from Loyola Law School of Los Angeles in 2011, where he served on the Loyola Law School International and Comparative Law Review, earned the Judge Barry Russell Award for Outstanding Achievement in Federal Courts and Practice Course, and earned First Honors in Comparative Law. Art was a member of Loyola Law School’s St. Thomas More Law Honor Society, which limited its membership to the top 15 percent of the class. From 2009 to 2010, Art served as the Society’s Tutoring Director and supervised a team of over 20 tutors who provided free tutoring to the law school’s student body.

During law school, Art assisted in the investigation and prosecution of attorneys as a law clerk in the Office of the Chief Trial Counsel of the State Bar of California; externed for the Honorable Victoria S. Kaufman in the United States Bankruptcy Court, Central District of California; and worked as a law clerk for Bet Tzedek Legal Services where he assisted underprivileged clients in bankruptcy, consumer rights, social security, and elder abuse matters.

He is an active member of the Los Angeles County Bar Association (LACBA); the Association of Professional Responsibility Lawyers (APRL); and the Association of Discipline Defense Counsel (ADDC), for which he served on the Board of Directors in various capacities (2017 to 2021), including serving as the organization’s President (2021). He also served on the State Bar of California’s Bench-Bar Committee on behalf of ADDC for two years (2018-2020). In addition, Art is a regular speaker at MCLE presentations to different attorney groups and organizations on various legal ethics topics.

Before joining Nemecek & Cole, Art was an associate attorney at Pansky Markle from March 2012 through January 2025.