Alternative Dispute Resolution
“Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other’s eyes for an instant?”
– Henry David Thoreau
Mediation presents a unique opportunity for the parties to a dispute to hear the voices, concerns and interests of the other parties to the dispute. It provides a venue for one to shed the business or personal ethnocentrism that may be informing one’s actions and decisions and to walk – even momentarily – in the shoes of the other party. Such insight is beneficial and productive in structuring settlements that provide perspective and give meaning to the divergent interests of the parties.
Arbitration provides a method of alternative dispute resolution accepted by most public and private entities internationally and locally. Parties in an agreement can choose to resolve any dispute by forming a private tribunal before an arbitrator of their choice. They may also choose the follow or discard any particular rule or law of their own country or choose that of another country or may even choose to follow international laws and rules. This method provides a substantial amount of party intertwined autonomy since the parties are generally free to agree how their disputes are resolved, subject only to such safeguards as are necessary in the public interest
Lisa D. Love brings to her work as a neutral over 30 years of experience as a transactional attorney in a wide variety of complex commercial, finance, construction and contract matters. Lisa has served as an arbitrator in numerous administered and non-administered arbitration proceedings involving the New York Convention, the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law Arbitration Rules, the Federal Arbitration Act and various institutional rules.
Lisa is neutral with JAMS, a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitration (FCIArb), an Associate in the 2022 College of Commercial Arbitrators Associates Program, a Fellow of the Center for Conflict Resolution and Prevention/FINRA/LCLD, a Panel Member for FINRA Roster of Arbitrators and Mediators, a Panel Member of American Arbitration Association – ICDR Panel, a Panel Member with American Arbitration Association (AAA) Roster of Arbitrators and Mediators – Large Complex Commercial Panel and Mergers and Acquisition Panel, and a Member of the Center for Conflict Resolution and Prevention (CPR) Panels of Distinguished Neutrals as an arbitrator and a mediator to its Banking, Accounting and Financial Services Panel, Franchise Panel, Hedge Funds Panel, Insurer-Policy Holder Coverage Panel, Real Estate Panel and New York City ADR General Commercial Panel. Lisa is also listed in the Roster of Arbitrators of African Descent with a U.S. Nexus
Lisa is a member of American Bar Association (ABA) Women In Dispute Resolution (WIDR) – New York City Regional Co-Chair, Member – Garibaldi Inns of Court – Programming Committee, Member – ArbitralWomen, American College of Investment Counsel, Ladies First (Women in Finance), Legal Council on Legal Diversity, National Bar Association – Women Lawyers Division, National Association of Minority and Women Owned Law Firms, and Women Owned Law.
Lisa has participated in the ICC International Mediation Competition, Paris, France – Observer (February 2020), the Foreign Direct Investment International Moot Arbitration Competition, Miami, Florida – Arbitrator (November 2019), the CPR International Moot Mediation Competition, São Paulo, Brazil – Arbitrator (April 2018) and the Judith S. Kaye Moot Arbitration Competition, New York, New York – Mediator (November 2017).