Lisa’s mediation practice is built on over two decades of legal experience, representing both individuals and businesses of all sizes in employment and business law disputes in state and federal courts throughout Georgia and around the country as well as in arbitration. Her unique background advising and defending companies as well as pursuing claims on behalf of individuals enables Lisa to see all sides of a dispute, and she is considered by her peers to be fair-minded, practical, diligent, and hard-working. As a mediator, Lisa takes time to fully understand the parties’ positions and works to develop a rapport of credibility and trust that enables her to diligently pursue common ground among parties with strongly divergent views of the facts and law.
While serving as a mediator, Lisa continues to run her own law practice, so she fully understands the risks of continuing to litigate and the benefits of compromise and resolution by agreement, whereby parties take control of their own destiny rather than leaving it to the fate of a judge, jury, or arbitrator an indeterminate amount of time down the road. Lisa also serves on the American Arbitration Association’s Panel of Employment Arbitrators, and as both a mediator and an arbitrator, her goal is to help parties and their counsel to resolve their disputes out of court with efficiency and finality. Lisa earned her undergraduate degree from Cornell University and her law degree from the University of Georgia School of Law. Between practicing law in a large Atlanta firm and later opening her own small law firm, Lisa spent over a decade teaching civil procedure and employment law as a full-time law professor and has published five major law review articles. Lisa and her husband live outside Athens, Georgia and stay busy raising three teenagers. They enjoy traveling to unique foreign destinations and have raced together in multiple triathlons, marathons, and adventure races.