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Lisa Pomerantz

Lisa Pomerantz

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Mediating & Arbitrating Workplace & Employment Matters with MWI
Case Manager: Josh Hoch, 617-895-4028 or jhoch@mwi.org

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Dispute Resolution Experience

Lisa Pomerantz is an Arbitrator and Mediator with MWI. She also serves as a neutral on the American Arbitration Association Commercial, Consumer, and Employment Panels, the EDNY Mediation Panel, and various New York State mediation panels. She has represented numerous employees and employers as settlement counsel in resolving a variety of employment-related disputes involving statutory and/or contract claims.

Focus Areas

  • Workplace
  • Employment
  • Higher Education
  • Healthcare
  • Family Businesses
  • Restrictive Covenants, Compensation and Commission Claims, and other contract issues
  • Employment Discrimination
  • FLSA and other statutory claims
  • Recruiter Commission Dispute

Honors, Memberships, and Professional Activities

  • Member, EDNY Advisory Council (2020-2022)
  • Past Co-Chair, Suffolk County Bar Association ADR Committee
  • Past Board Member, New York State Dispute Resolution Association (2011-2015)
  • Past Board Member, Association for Conflict Resolution (2014-2015)
  • Recipient, Long Island Business News Leadership in Law Award (2011 and 2017)
  • Recipient, Association for Conflict Resolution, Exemplary Leadership Award (2015)
  • Author, “Workplace Violence Prevention: Personal Concerns and Professional
    Opportunities for Conflict Resolution Practitioners”, ACResolution Magazine, Summer 2014

Lectures and ADR Trainings Conducted

  • Adjunct Professor, Texas A&M Law School, (2025 to date),  Employment Law
  • Adjunct Professor, Touro Law School, (2018 to date), Courses taught include: Employment Law, Arbitration, and Interviewing, Negotiating and Counseling
  • Visiting Instructor, Vilnius University, Lithuania (2020), Emerging Legal Issues in the 21st Century Workplace
  • Visiting Instructor, University of Tartu, Estonia (2018, 2019), Negotiation and Conflict
    Resolution

Representative Speaking Engagements

  • “Managing and Resolving Conflict in Healthcare Workplaces”, 2024 Association for Conflict Resolution Annual Conference
  • “Navigating Challenges in Family Business”, 2023 Association for Conflict Resolution Annual Conference
  • “Overcoming Challenges in Virtual Mediations”, 2021 Association for Conflict Resolution Annual Conference
  • “The Value of Transparency in Mediation”, 2020 Annual Conferences of the Association for Conflict Resolution and New York State Dispute Resolution Association;
  • “Common Attributes and Challenges of High-Emotion Conflicts in the Workplace and Family Business Settings”, International Mediation Symposium (2019)
  • “Business Partnerships: The Good, The Bad and the Ugly” Stony Brook Small Business Development Center (2019)
  • “Building Your Business Through Diversity and Inclusion”, Suffolk Academy of Law (2018)

Background and Education

  • Boston University (JD-1979)
  • Harvard University (BA, Economics and History, cum laude-1976)

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