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, Esq., FCIArb. is an accomplished arbitrator and mediator with the Judicial Arbitration and Mediation Service (JAMS).  She brings to her work as a neutral over 35 years of experience as a transactional attorney focused on infrastructure and project development, commercial real estate, corporate finance, construction, government and public agency matters, public and corporate finance, public-private partnerships, securities, mergers and acquisitions, corporate governance, licensing, technology transfers, antitrust and contract matters.

Utilizing her deep commercial transactions experience, Ms. Love has served as arbitrator in over 60 administered and non-administered arbitrations involving corporate and commercial finance, commercial real estate, banking, international and domestic franchising, international investments, mergers and acquisitions, breach of contract, securities, equity investments and antitrust.  The arbitrations have been governed under the New York Convention, the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law Arbitration Rules, the Federal Arbitration Act and various other institutional rules.

Ms. Love is also a highly sought-after trainer, speaker, author and educator on topics relating to contract drafting and interpretation in international and domestic arbitrations, the effectiveness of arbitration (the litigation –  arbitration debate), drafting domestic and international arbitration clauses, infrastructure construction and diversity in the legal and ADR fields.

Ms. Love is also 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, a Member of the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) DRSL Academy North America, a Member of the Center for Conflict Resolution and Prevention (CPR) Panels of Distinguished Neutrals as an arbitrator and a mediator to its Dispute Prevention Panel, 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.